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4.5
Forbidden love, ghosts and a bell that rings on its own, herbal family planning, a chicken-napping, and the dying art of lace-making--Susan Wittig Albert artfully weaves all these elements and more into the latest China Bayles herbal mystery, Queen Anne's Lace. Skillfully teasing the reader from the contemporary story to a nineteenth-century love story, she braids two plots together in a highly satisfying way. I literally could not put this down, once I got a bit into it. Excellent work from a master storyteller.