
Susan Wittig Albert is giving away an advance reading copy of the latest installment in her China Bayles series, Wormwood
. 
If you don’t know China, she used to be a high profile lawyer, but decided to switch careers and sell herbs in a small Texas town. Only she still has more to do with murder victims than she ever imagined. It’s like she’s living out Amy Stewart’s latest book, Wicked Plants
. Anyway, the drawing for the book will be on March 30thMarch 28th, and I’ll be announcing the winner here. If you follow the link to the giveaway, you’ll find out why.
Update: Jinni Turkelson is the winner. For those of you who got confused, At Susan’s post she linked to her guest post on my blog. At that year-old post there is an update, which provided a link to a page on a different website of hers that had the (no longer valid) entry form.
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Kathy Purdy discovered the joys of writing in fourth grade, when she started corresponding with a former classmate. She's been writing letters ever since, first on looseleaf, then electronically, and now as weblog entries. That makes you, the blog reader, her pen pal. Her first independent (though frustrating) attempts at gardening were made in high school, though the gardening bug didn't bite hard until her mid-thirties, when she found herself mistress of a rural home on 15 acres. •
USDA Hardiness Zone:4 • AHS Heat Zone: 3 • Location: rural;
Southern Tier of NY • Geographic type: foothills of Appalachian
Mountains • Soil Type: acid clay • Experience level:
intermediate
• Particular interests: colchicums, narcissus, cottage gardening, NY
native plants, gardening with/for children
Snowdrops provide the intermezzo between winter and spring.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate
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Enjoy your blog very much. I have a link to it on my own. I hope people are checking it out.
Ah. Ah.
Well, I am obviously not going to solve any mysteries any time soon, am I?
Reading comprehension, it’s not just for elementary school!
Is there a piece missing, Kathy?
You’ll find the link to the drawing for the advance reading copy of Wormwood at the end of the post on CCG.
Color me confused.
At the end of the (old) post on my blog that Susan links to in her post, which is not this new, recently written post.
Can’t find a link here or on Susan Wittig Albert’s website to enter this. Oh, well.
Sorry you had trouble, Marguerite. The words “giving away an advance reading copy” link to the post on Susan’s blog where she tells you where to go to find the link to the place to enter for the drawing.
I have all the China Bayles mysteries. I am going to try to start a vegetable garden this year. The zone I am in is probably the coldest. I am in Northern Minnesota. 60 miles Northwest fo Duluth, and 100 miles south of Canada.
I’ll enter! Although I THINK it’s here. Nevertheless, I’ll be on the lookout for these books. I don’t usually like mysteries because of the violence, so this might be interesting. Thanks for the heads up.
—–> sez the zone 4 chick who can’t even THINK about working the soil
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Hi Kathy! I will follow the link but did want to say hello…any more signs of spring up there? gail
I’ve never heard of Amy Stewart or China Bayles. But I love a good mystery so I’m going to have to check these books out.
Hi, Gayle. Just to make things clear: Amy’s book is nonfiction, about poisonous plants, many of which have shown up in Susan’s fiction mystery books.