Ex-lawyer turned herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles attends a chili cookoff where a womanizing judge dies of an allergic reaction to peanuts. And since everyone knows peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili, China knows something suspicious is afoot...
Susan Wittig Albert is an American author. She has been a full-time novelist since she left her career as an English professor and university administrator in 1985. She lives with her husband Bill Albert, also an author, in the Texas Hill Country.
