Dead Man's Bones

Written by Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by Julia Gibson

New York Times best-selling author of A Dilly of a Death, Susan Wittig Albert adds Dead Man's Bones to her widely acclaimed China Bayles mystery series. Publishers Weekly says China is "in a class with lady sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum." Deep in Texas hill country, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenage son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 6, 2008
• ISBN: 9781449802943

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.

Reviews for Dead Man's Bones

[carol420 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Bones have been unearthed in the cave in Mistletoe, Texas. Some were old but some were the remains from a not-so distant and not-so accidental death. I liked the book. Some of the characters were very humerus. I just like books with a little more "meat" to them and not so much "cutesy". My mother reads everything this authors writes and loves them so it's just a difference in tastes. If you like milder mysteries, this is your series of books.

[drled_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Synopsis: Brian is working with people from the university to excavate some ancient Indian relics but finds a skeleton of someone from the current century. Meanwhile China is landscaping the new playhouse that has been donated by two elderly ladies, one of whom is driving everyone crazy with her demands. Then the local handyman is shot breaking into the house of the two old women. Review: Most of the book was interesting, but there were several loose ends that never were resolved and the murders (three, eventually) should have been tied together more closely.

[fiberfool · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I skipped "Dilly of a Death" by accident, but Albert does a pretty good job of catching you up with what you might have missed that you need to know so I didn't feel lost. For some reason though I didn't connect with this story as much as other books of the series. I did have the mystery more or less figured out very early on (perhaps that was why I was a little less enthralled?). Despite that, I'm hoping to go back to Dilly of a Death if I can find it locally sometime soon and plan to continue reading the series. I do have the next book waiting for me on the shelf when I ready to move forward.

[herbcat_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Albert is always fun or at least interesting.

[jepeters333 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Deep in Texas hill couuntry, ex-lawyer China thinks life is hectic enough already, and then her teenaged son unearths human remains while digging in a nearby cave. The bones indicate foul play - and are much too recent to be an archeological find. Despite the unexpected turn of events, China keeps her cool and attends the opening of the new community theater. But the party abruptly ends when the elderly Jane Obermann shoots a local handyman in the name of self-defense. China beginns to snoop around - and what she finds is shocking.

[madamejeanie · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The Obermann sisters, the elderly remnants of one of the wealthiest families in Pecan Springs, have decided to donate a building on their property to the local community theater group, with one stipulation: They must perform a play written by Miss Jane Obermann that celebrates the life of her father and family founder. But the opening night cast party is brought to an abrupt halt when a shot rings out and Miss Jane Obermann is found holding a smoking gun over the dead body of the local handyman who was apparently breaking into her home, armed with a butcher knife. And China's stepson, Brian, stumbles across a skeleton while exploring a cave, it opens a mystery that is at least 30 years old. China is the only person who sees that the secrets to be found in the dead man's bones will connect the two seemingly unrelated deaths in a way that will shock Pecan Springs to it's very core.Another good one in a great series. 4