Carolyn Haines

Broke, unmarried, haunted by the nagging ghost of great-great-grandmother's nanny, and about to lose the family plantation, Sarah Booth is in no condition to fall in love and investigate a murder, but she finds herself doing both. Original.

Them Bones

People of Eternity are known to have far-reaching connections which Frankie worries may reach as high as law enforcement. Refusing to contact the authorities, she turns to Delaney Detective Agency as her only hope.

A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery

Lady of Bones

Taking a romantic Gulf Coast vacation with Graf to speed his recovery, Sarah Booth Delaney agrees to investigate the murder of a tour guide's treasure-hunting father only to discover more danger than anticipated. 35,000 first printing.

Booty Bones

Southern belle-turned-private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney struggles to cope with her antebellum Delta estate's local ghost, who is determined to save her from spinsterhood, and with Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party, a lavish occasion that end in murder after the host brags about his new tell-all biography that could blow the lid off the town's darkest secrets. Original.

Buried Bones

Fiesty Southern belle and private detective Sarah Booth Delaney heads back into action when her friend, Eulalee McBride, is accused of murdering her cheating husband, but Sarah's investigation soon uncovers the fact that not everything is as it seems, a revelation that leads Sarah straight into danger. By the author of Them Bones. Reprint.

Splintered Bones

Haunted by a busybody ghost and constantly nagged about finding a husband, thirtysomething Mississippi private detective Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the murder of a black blues-club owner and finds herself caught in the middle of a town torn apart by racial prejudice when the victim's white protg becomes the prime suspect in the killing. Reprint.

Crossed Bones

Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are as numerous as the stories of spiritual malfeasance that permeate the air. Reprint.

Hallowed Bones

This time, in her latest mystery in this “enchanting” (Publishers Weekly) series, Sarah Booth Delaney is getting schooled in murder. . . Faith, Hope, and Charity are sister witches who have come to Zinnia, Mississippi, to open a Wiccan boarding school on an old dairy farm. Soon, tensions rise to a boil—and bodies begin to pile up. Enter private investigator Sarah Booth. She has been hired to find a missing youth whose mother, Kitten, is convinced that her son was abducted by the sister witches—and, for reasons of her own, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to drive the witches away for good. When Sarah Booth and her partner, Tinkie, find the boy, unharmed, it is only the beginning of a series of events that include midnight dances under a full moon, love potions, and murder. Do Faith, Hope, and Charity really have magical powers, as they claim? Are they criminals—or victims of something more sinister that has taken hold of this tranquil, Southern town...? “A sure pleaser in both the mystery and the romance department...A satisfying cozy Southern whodunit.”—RT Book Reviews

Charmed Bones

The Devil's Bones

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines For many years Jitty, Dahlia House’s resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth Delaney would have a child to inherit the family’s ancestral home. Sarah Booth has always had reservations about being a parent. There was her work as an actress and PI, taking care of the house, not to mention finding the right man. But when Jitty’s dream finally looks like it’s going to come true, Sarah Booth is crushed when it doesn’t. Depressed, unable to act or investigate, Sarah Booth finally allows her best friend to whisk her away for a luxurious weekend vacation at a special spa and cooking school. The pampering and food go a long way toward making her feel like her old self, but there’s another welcome distraction—there’s a beauty contest/cook-off going on to find the spa’s next spokesperson, and watching the drama really takes her mind off of her woes. Sarah finds the backbiting to be great fun—until the heated competition boils over, the top contender is poisoned, and the prime suspect hires Sarah Booth to clear her name. Between swimsuit competitions and soufflés, Sarah Booth Delaney and her best friend and partner, Tinkie, must find out which of the ambitious young ladies is to blame in Bone Appetit, the latest in Carolyn Haines’s delightfully Southern cozy mystery series.

Bone Appétit

When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names only to discover another body in the professor's hotel room. By the award-winning author of Bonefire of the Vanities.

Smarty Bones

Her latest attempt at stardom interrupted by the sudden and life-threatening illness of a friend's husband, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney looks into the perplexing illness, which has been causing the several rapid deaths, in a case that is further complicated by an insect infestation. 30,000 first printing.

Greedy Bones

Game of Bones

Bones of Holly

A touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof brings murder and mayhem into the life of P.I. Sarah Booth when the costar, a much-despised diva and current lover of her old flame, is poisoned, and all evidence points to Sarah, forcing her to play the role of a lifetime in order to catch the real killer.

Ham Bones

When a local girl is found dead in a cotton field and her lover stands accused of the crime, southern belle and fearless P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by the suspect's brother to expose the real killer. Reprint.

Bones to Pick

Lights, Camera, Bones

Tell-Tale Bones

Independent Bones

Jade Dupree is a beautician and an undertaker's assistant with a gift for smoothing the ravages of death from the faces of her clientele. But her strange talent isn't the only thing that sets her apart from the townspeople of tiny Drexel, Mississippi. Jade is half-black and the unacknowledged bastard daughter of Drexel's "first lady," the imperious Lucille Longier. Jade's half sister, the pale, fragile, and legitimate Marlena, is married to Lucas Bramlett, the wealthiest man in the region. While the entire town knows of the blood bond between the two women, no one dares speak the truth out loud. Though her talents as a hairdresser are highly sought after by Drexel's elite, Jade accepts that she'll never truly be part of the town and lives her life the best she can. But on one hot summer day in 1952, Jade's world is turned inside out when Marlena, on a tryst with her lover, is savagely beaten and her young daughter kidnapped. Determined to find her niece before it's too late, Jade accepts help from a white sheriff's deputy, Frank Kimble. The forbidden attraction that ignites between them threatens to add to the violence already brewing in town. Carolyn Haines has written several acclaimed mysteries, but here she mines much darker, more serious territory, resulting in a suspenseful, lyrical, passionate, and literary crime novel.

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