{"product_id":"hemlock-9781952558153","title":"Hemlock","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Susan Wittig Albert, the New York Times bestselling author of A Plain Vanilla Murder, comes a tightly crafted novel that juxtaposes the disappearance of a rare, remarkably illustrated 18th-century herbal with the true and all-too-human story of its gifted creator, Elizabeth Blackwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHerbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book-\u003cem\u003eA Curious Herbal\u003c\/em\u003e, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s-is missing and Dorothea is under suspicion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChina's search for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss Carswell's bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many tantalizing mysteries of \u003cem\u003eA Curious Herbal\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHemlock\u003c\/em\u003e is a compelling mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and characters who are as real as your friends and neighbors-in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Persevero Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645789049106,"sku":"9781952558153","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae65ee78-80be-49c5-88c8-242665026d05.jpg?v=1733162059","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hemlock-9781952558153","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}