Carolyn Haines
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Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life. . .
Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on...
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Winner of both the Harper Lee Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, Carolyn Haines has thrilled countless readers with her Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries. Here, Sarah investigates when two wealthy heiresses claim a four-million-dollar family necklace was stolen. All the evidence points to insurance fraud, but when Sarah starts poking into the family's dark secrets, one of the heiresses disappears.
3) Jingle Bones
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Jingle Bones, an e-original Christmas story featuring Mississippi PI Sarah Booth Delaney, offers all the Southern charm and zany adventure Carolyn Haines's fans have come to expect-and more.
Sarah Booth just wants the perfect Christmas holiday. Even with the dissolution of her engagement, she refuses to lose her Christmas spirit. But when Theodora Prince-an ex classmate and current Pastor's wife-comes calling with a year-old case and cash upfront,...
4) Shorty Bones
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From award-winning author Carolyn Haines comes Shorty Bones, a charming story starring feisty Southern belle and private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.
Sarah Booth just wants to help her fiancé recover from a leg wound in peace...until, that is, an ex-porn star declares that she's being stalked, and Sarah Booth suddenly finds herself in the midst of a wild case with no idea what to believe or whom to trust.
5) Guru Bones
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In GURU BONES, beloved author Carolyn Haines returns to Zinnia, Mississippi, in a short mystery that will delight fans and new readers alike.
Southern-belle-turned-PI Sarah Booth Delaney is unenthusiastic at best when her friends rope her into attending a health food and lifestyle seminar. Priya Karsan, an internationally known activist, is in Zinnia for a lecture. But the lecture takes a turn for the deadly when there's a body discovered in the venue's...
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She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems-like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesn't hesitate to get involved. Splintered Bones Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering...
7) Skin Dancer
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In the deep quiet of the South Dakota wilderness, a killer is on the loose. The victims are poachers and professional hunters. Their skinned and beheaded corpses are left hanging upside down. Rookie Criss County Deputy Rachel Redmond, a young woman with a troubled past and a need to prove herself, must find the killer.Native American legend speaks of a Sioux warrior who took too much pride in his ability to kill. The gods punished him by taking his...
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Horse thieving is a hanging offense… Catherine Nelson will always be the enemy to Patrick Shaw. She stole his dream when she purchased Beltene, the most famous horse breeding farm in Ireland-a farm Patrick worked a lifetime to build. When Catherine turns over the training of Limerick, a stallion Patrick raised, to a "win at all costs" trainer, Patrick knows the horse is in danger. But the green-eyed, upper-crust, she-devil won't listen to reason....
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When Eleanor Duncan rescues the unusual black cat from a university parking lot, she suspects he has run through at least eight of his lives. But it's his ninth, and potentially last, that concerns her most. Alarming events appear to have followed him into her life. Eleanor is assaulted by a stranger and interrogated by the CIA. More terrifying is her husband's seeming return from the dead.A trip to veterinarian Peter Curry reveals an even deeper...
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Christmas is six days away-and Sarah Booth Delaney has her hands full! To honor a group of international investors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects the old custom of drifting miniature, lighted Christmas floats down Silver Bayou. The Italian delegation from Venice may bring much-needed new jobs and commercial opportunities to this small, struggling Delta town. Among the investors is notorious womanizer, Enzo Aceto. Handsome, witty, and eager for new...
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Waverley Mansion, a unique and lovely antebellum home in northeast Mississippi, offers the most dangerous challenge yet to Raissa James and her partner in the Pluto's Snitch private detective agency. They specialize in hauntings, possessions, and the occult.In the isolation of Waverley, Raissa's special gift, her ability to see and communicate with the dead, puts a target on her back. The entity that resides at Waverley Mansion covets Raissa's sensitivity....
12) Clacking Bones
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EVEN THE DEAD WANT REVENGE! Cliburn Plantation is a ruin. Cursed by a voodoo priestess because of the cruelty of Ezekiel Cliburn, it's home to the ghosts of Haitian mourners, slaves, river pirates, and tragedy. When Jitty, the resident ghost of Dahlia House and Sarah Booth Delaney's nemesis and friend, asks for help, Sarah Booth takes on the nether world in this creepy Halloween tale. Jitty's husband, who was killed in the Civil War, has disappeared...
13) Enchanted Bones
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In Carolyn Haines's Enchanted Bones, PI Sarah Booth Delaney comes to the rescue in a short mystery set in Zinnia, Mississippi, that will delight fans and new readers alike.
A lost little girl is just about the last thing Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney expects to see while horseback riding one evening in the woods, and her concern deepens when she reads the note pinned to the girl's outfit: it says she is cursed, and has consequently been...
14) The Seeker
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Aine Cahill has escaped her troubled past through her studies. A graduate student researching Henry David Thoreau, Aine has a secret. One that may bring her fame and a guaranteed job.The notoriously reclusive Thoreau had a companion at his Walden Pond retreat. Aine's aunt Bonnie, a woman ahead of her time in many regards, lived with Thoreau in his small cabin-and Aine has her aunt's diary to prove it.Aine's dissertation will blow a hole in the legend...
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TIME IS RUNNING OUT-for Abigail and Familiar. In the crush of current-day Washington traffic, Abigail West is struck a glancing blow by a car. The black cat that pushed her to safety isn't so lucky. He's injured and unconscious. Abigail rushes to help the black cat-and her antique pendant swings free of her shawl. The world goes black, and Abigail awakens in 1692 Massachusetts. With her are Familiar the black cat detective and Samuel Truesdale, the...
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Elizabeth Maslow is an educated woman living in the isolated town of 1920's Mission, Alabama. She's defied the town's definition of a woman's place-she's unmarried and given birth to a child with webbed hands and feet. In a town fraught with superstitions and religious repression, Elizabeth is dangerous.
But Elizabeth is much more than an unwed mother. Since the birth of Callie, who she believes is fathered by an angel, she's been able to "dream...
17) The Darkling
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Berta and Bob Henderson have plenty of love for their children-and enough even for a foster child. When Annie, a young amnesiac found wandering the streets of a nearby city, comes into their home, bad things begin to happen.
Mimi Bosarge, the live-in tutor, has a deep love for Coden, Alabama, which in the 1940s was a hideaway for movie stars and the wealthy. By 1976, Coden has been long forgotten. Bob's plans to renovate the old hotel on the Mississippi...
18) Too Familiar
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When the future holds only terror…precognition isn't a gift. Cassandra McBeth sees the future, and it involves a night stalker and terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. But knowing the future doesn't give Cassandra the answers to stopping what she sees in the terrifying images of her nightmares.Adam Raleigh believes in Cassandra and her visions. He stands with her when no one else will. But can she trust him? In a race against time, they seek the answer...
19) Sticks and bones
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"Southern belle turned private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney digs into a cold case when a film crew comes to Zinnia, Mississippi, and hires her to discover the absolute truth about the death of a prominent family's son five years earlier. She soon realizes someone is desperate to keep the truth hidden"--
20) A gift of bones
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"As Christmas approaches, Sarah Booth Delaney must help find a pregnant young woman who has been kidnapped before something terrible happens on what should be the merriest day of the year"--