But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bast*ard…Īnd that s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400 pound horse. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide.

But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn t hesitate to get involved. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind like trying to hang on to her family s plantation…Īnd coping with regular hauntings by her great great grandmother s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling. Splintered BonesShe may be a born and bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy s girl. Now the author of Them Bones and Buried Bones makes her exciting hardcover debut with Splintered Bones, a novel that plunges her feisty Delta detective into a world of old money, new secrets, cheating hearts, and cold blooded murder… Did gorgeous, landed Hamilton Garrett V really kill his mother twenty years ago? And if so, what is Sarah Booth doing falling for this possible murderer? When she asks one too many questions and a new corpse turns up, she is suddenly a suspect herself…Īnd Sarah Booth finds that digging up the bones of the past could leave her rolling over in her grave.Ĭarolyn Haines has delighted readers with her acclaimed Mississippi Delta mysteries, which introduced a truly unique hero*ine: Sarah Booth Delaney, an unconventional southern belle who solves uncommon murders. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great great grandmother’s nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friend’s prize pooch to raise some cash.īut soon Sarah Booth’s walk on the criminal side leads her deeper into unladylike territory, and she’s hired to solve a murder. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she’s flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. No self respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booth’s situation.

I shouldn’t have listened to that ghost…Īn unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi…

Power and Seduction by Joan Hohl