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    Bleeding Hearts
    Bleeding Hearts
    Bleeding Hearts
    Audiobook10 hours

    Bleeding Hearts

    Written by Susan Wittig Albert

    Narrated by Julia Gibson

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    About this audiobook

    National best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert's poetic beauty and West Texas flavor permeate her China Bayles mysteries. The high school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his victims turns up dead and suspicion falls upon the lecherous coach. "Albert's characterization is strong-China delights as ever ."-Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 25, 2008
    ISBN9781436135986
    Bleeding Hearts
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      I enjoy this series - they are quick reads and entertaining enough to keep me interested.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: It's coming up on Valentine's Day which means that China and Ruby are getting ready for special parties. Brian brings Jake to his house and China overhears Jake crying; Brian tries to comfort her, then asks China if he should or should not intervene in Jake's problem. There are undercurrents in the community that a person held in high regard isn't as well adjusted as he seems.Review: This story deals with girls and young women being victimized by older men. This topic was handled in a sensitive yet realistic manner.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the book, almost too many subplots but she tied them all up in the last couple of chapters...
    • 4/5
      China Bayles is working on her busy little herb store when a friends asks her to use her sleuthing skills and investigate some allegations against the high school's new football coach. Meanwhile, her mother hands her a bombshell in the form of some old letters belonging to her dad. China's personal life is about to get more complicated. I wasn't exactly surprised by the twists in this one, but I like the characters and the setting well enough to enjoy it despite it being a little too predictable. Hints of more complications to come in the next book. This isn't a series that I feel driven to search for, but when I come across one of the books, I do enjoy them. I liked this one well enough to add the next one to my list at the library though. 3.5 stars
    • 4/5
      Another venture into cozy Pecan Springs. This time China investigates allegations of improper sexual actions with underage girls by the new super star high school football coach. The characters are engrossing and the story entertaining, and China learns more about her family past when her Mother gives her some letters to read.
    • 4/5
      Susan Wittig Albert is a prolific author of the China Bayles Mystery Series. The title of each book in the series is the name of a plant or herb. As a gardener myself, I was intrigued by this concept and knew I just had to pick up the first book in the series. I've enjoyed every aspect of the series ever since, from the plucky protagonist, China, a former attorney who now operates an herb shop and adjoining cafe, to her sidekick, Ruby, owner of an adjacent new-agent shop in quaint Pecan Springs, Texas.In this volume, the newly hired football coach elicits suspicions. As usual, China is called in to investigate his past, and in the process finds some disturbing information. If you enjoy light reading and occasional herbal lore, I think you'll enjoy this series.
    • 5/5
      After an anonymous tip from a mysterious caller, the principal of Pecan Springs High School asks China to investigate the background of the new football coach. In an area where high school Friday night football is held in the highest esteem and a winning coach is a bigger celebrity than the governor, China has to tread softly as the allegations of sexual misconduct start bearing fruit. And it doesn't help matters any for her personally when a long forgotten man from her distant past reappears with news that shakes the very foundation of her life.I read this book slightly out of order (booksfree skipped sending me one), so a new character almost threw me for a loop, but I'm glad if I had to miss a book in the series, that this one wasn't it. The backstory in any series is just as important if not moreso, IMO, as the quality of the mystery itself, and I really do enjoy these characters. This book throws some changes at China, but I have a hunch it will only serve to make this series richer.