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It’s Christmas in Posadas County.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.

Busy stitching and bandaging lumberjacks’ injuries, young Dr. Thomas Parks has no idea that his worst enemy is lurking in the sleepy village of Port McKinney in the spring of 1892.

When Posadas Register reporter Linda Real barely survives her nighttime patrol with one of Undersherrif Bill Gastner's deputies who is killed by a more accurate shotgun blast than the one that

When A.P. political reporter Lorena Hickok—Hick—is assigned to cover Mrs. Franklin D.

Parked on a side road on the flank of the second highest peak in the San Cristobal mountains, almost 70-year-old Bill Gastner doesn't foresee that a car full of drunk adolescents will run into

Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman can’t help but feel that the recent beating of Carmen Acosta and the disappearance of Carmen’s neighbor, Kevin Ziegler, are related. She’s just not sure how.

In the newest China Bayles Mystery in the New York Times bestselling series, China comes to the aid of a nurse who ends up in the hospital...

In the exciting new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author, China Bayles fears for her husband's life as an escaped convict targets him.

After his haystacks are burned, Farmer Harmsworth barricades the common path through Applebeck Orchard. Reliable witnesses say the arson was the work of a lantern-bearing specter.

The high school principal asks China Bayles to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships.

When a man dies soon after Tullie bashes his head with her cane, China's estranged mother frantically calls for her daughter's help.

Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.

China, owner of Thyme and Seasons Herbs, relishes her membership on the planning committee for the Picklefest in Pecan Springs, Texas.

Just as the holiday season begins, so does the drama, when China Bayles' husband's ex-wife Sally appears begging for help and a place to stay.