Reviews for Bloodroot

The average rating for Bloodroot based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-08 00:00:00 Robert Keene In #10 of the China Bayles series, China responds to an urgent phone call from her mother and goes back to her childhood home in Mississippi - to the family plantation and the past from which she had turned away. Too many of the cozy mysteries I've been reading lack depth, especially when it comes to characterization. That's why it's so refreshing to read Susan Wittig Albert's work. Her work is always so rich with characterizaion and history, that I can imagine her writing volumes of backstory in order to immerse herself in her characters and their lives. This truly shows in "Bloodroot." I think you need to already be familiar with the China Bayles series in order to truly appreciate "Bloodroot." Followers of the series must not miss this book!!! China goes "back to the motherline," as she says, and while solving both old and new mysteries, she learns to appreciate and know the line of southern women from whom she had tried to detach herself. I was especially able to connect with it, having southern connections in my own past and feeling about them much the way China did. I've been reading the China Bayles series a bit out of order. I'm going to try to rectify that and read the books more in order so I can get a more true impact o what is going on. Excellent addition to the series, lush with detail and characterization. Five big, fat stars to "Bloodroot"!!!!! Definitely a must read.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-06 00:00:00 Claudio Fredes When ex-defense attorney, cum herbal store and tea room owner, China Bayles, is called back to her families Mississippi homestead to help ferry out the truth behind a recently found centuries old deed, it's more than skeletons in the closet that are exposed. Leaving her own family and life in Texas, she drives out, at her mothers pleading, to assist in the swamp of trouble besetting her great-aunt, who is in the late stages of Huntington's disease. Her own memories unfurl, including what she believed to be a recurring dream of a body found in the backyard on a midnight search. It has all the makings of the steamy southern folklore: proprietary ghosts, sordid family history, illegitimate children, murder, an so forth. (There's even a cameo appearance by Minerva from "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," tho in an alias.. wink, wink.) Lots to keep track of with family lineage unfurled, but one of her best writes so far.