Hallowed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney): 5 - Softcover

Haines, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440241316 ISBN 13: 9780440241317

Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 2005

Synopsis

The southern Delta has never been more exhilarating, evocative, and wickedly funny than in the mysteries of Carolyn Haines. Now she takes readers on another rollicking ride across the Mississippi cotton fields and into the glamour of New Orleans...as P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements--and where one person's miracle is another person's mayhem.

The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family's decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney isn't ready to sing the blues. Not when she's got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer.

Although Doreen Mallory's been arrested for feeding sleeping pills to her ten-week-old daughter, no one could accuse her of lacking faith. A healer who, tragically, couldn't save her own baby girl, born with multiple birth defects, Doreen has her own crosses to bear. While the local law seems convinced of Doreen's guilt, Sarah Booth isn't so sure. But why is Doreen reluctant to talk about the men in her life? Like the televangelist who stands to lose a lot more than his flock. Or the married politician with family ties to the Mob. Either of them could be little Rebekah's father; either of them could also be her killer.

With Halloween approaching and her own personal life up for grabs, Sarah Booth could use a little faith healing herself. Torn between a married sheriff and an old flame who's literally sweeping her off her feet, she'd better be prepared for the fallout of her most
unpopular case yet. Justice may not stand a ghost of a chance as a decades-old secret explodes, unleashing a storm of fury on Sarah Booth and all those she loves.

Witty, suspenseful, and featuring a cast of memorable characters, Hallowed Bones is a riveting tale of faith, murder, and maternal love. It is Carolyn Haines's most accomplished novel yet.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Carolyn Haines' mysteries:

"A down-home valentine that couldn't be more southern if it were packaged with grits."
-Kirkus

"The Mississippi delta in the summer heat is not all that's steaming in Haines's fourth outing."
-Publishers Weekly

"Wickedly funny. Devlishly clever. Scintillatingly Southern. Carolyn Haines is an author to die for."
-Carolyn Hart, author of April Fool Dead

"Carolyn Haines has done for the Delta what Janet Evanovich has done for New Jersey: taken regional comic sleuthdom to huge heights."
-The State (Columbia, SC)?

About the Author:

A native of Mississippi, Carolyn Haines lives in southern Alabama on a farm with her husband, horses, dogs, and cats. She has been honored with an Alabama State Council on the Arts literary fellowship for her writing, a family with enough idiosyncracies to give her material for the rest of her life, and a bevy of terrific friends. She is a former photojournalist.?

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0440241316
• ISBN 13: 9780440241317
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368