Mistletoe Man
Written by Susan Wittig Albert
Narrated by Julia Gibson
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Susan Wittig Albert
Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of over one hundred books. Her work includes four mystery series: China Bayles, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and the Robin Paige Victorian Mysteries. She has also published three award-winning historical novels as well as YA fiction, memoirs, and nonfiction. She and her husband live in Texas Hill Country, where she writes, gardens, and raises an assortment of barnyard creatures.
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Reviews for Mistletoe Man
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mistletoe man by Albert_ Susan Wittig Love the beginning about the history of many mistletoe species and what they are used for.Thyme and Season is China Bayles's shop. Laurel is her Native American assistant.Thyme for Tea is her drink shop that she runs with Ruby.She is married to McQuade ( a TX ranger) and Brian is his son that she loves being a mother to.He's on leave from his professor job, recovering from his injuries.Mistletoe delivery didn't show up and it's hand picked locally.Love hearing of the melodies and themes in the shop, different everyday. Love trip to the farm and learning more about mistletoe and other flowers growing nearby that are put into wreaths.Like also the start of each chapter as it focuses on things and are cool to learn about.Lots of mystery surrounding a death and a disappearance. Facts are collected and China pieces it all together....Lots of characters but a good read. Surprises along the way, twists and turns, unpredictable.Enjoyed this book, first one I've read from this series. Liked indepth history and research on the word mistletoe.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Synopsis: It's Christmas in Pecan Springs and China has agreed to put her home in the Christmas open house and now doesn't know why she made such a rash statement. The tea room is doing great, but they need a cook and surprisingly one appears, unsolicited. China also need lots more wreaths and mistletoe; however the man supplying the mistletoe is harassing the women with the wreaths. They are also having issues taking care of their aunt who seems to have dementia. Mistletoe man is murdered and China must untangle all the deceptions surrounding these off-beat characters.Review: While the mystery is interesting, the story also explores care for the elderly and the stress involved with a cancer diagnosis.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was a really good cozy mystery except for the stuff that happens to Ruby. I read to escape reality not to be hit over the head with it. Why she have to go there?! Oh well, I would still read this book again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Christmas season finds herbalist/detective China Bayles trying hard to keep up with the busiest retail season of the year. It is nearly impossible to keep the shop supplied with mistletoe. China's chief supplier has always been a pair of sisters who operate an herbal farm in rural Texas. A strange and prickly new supplier shows up on China's radar, and he seems to be the answer to her supply problems, at least until he turns up dead. The mistletoe sisters are acting awfully suspicious, and China's best friend and partner Ruby is acting entirely out of sorts too. China ends up doing what she likes best- solving a mystery and selling herbs. I absolutely love the discussion of herbs and the herbal industry that permeates these books. I also liked the festive, holiday atmosphere of this particular book. What I've never been able to come around to in this series is the relationship between China and McQuaid. It's not that I don't like McQuaid's character, it's more that I get bored with books about commitment-phobia, and that's a huge part of China and McQuaid's relationship. Still, I enjoyed this book. It's a good book for a lazy weekend afternoon.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A decent mystery with moderately interesting characters. China is a world-class butt-insky, but nobody seems to mind too much. She and her former-cop husband are given a lot of leeway by the new sheriff and help to solve the murder of an unpopular neighbor. The friendshio between China and Ruby is nicely drawn, but more could have been done with most of the characters to make us care what happens to them.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Carl Swenson is known around Pecan Springs as the Mistletoe Man, because his one consistent cash crop is the mistletoe that grows wild on his huge ranch. He raises a few goats and has more than one feud going with the neighbors, but the hottest one is with the Fletcher sisters, Donna and Terry, who bought 200 acres from Carl and have developed a small profitable flower growing business there. When Carl is found lying in a ditch in front of his property, the obvious victim of a hit and run, Blackie, the local sheriff, isn't so sure it's an accident. Suspicion falls on the Fletcher women, the sisters and their eccentric elderly Aunt Velda, whose tales of being abducted by Klingons are tolerated with a smile by any who listen. China knows there is more here than meets the eye, and she engages the help of her good friend and business partner, Ruby, hoping to distract her best friend from a personal problem that threatens to consume her.This episode in the series moves the backstory along nicely and provides a nice little mystery to go along with it. I had it figured out fairly early on, but that hardly mattered because I enjoy visiting the folks in Pecan Springs once in a while. 4