Sarah Booth Delaney Delta #4
Dell
February 2004
On Sale: February 3, 2004
384 pages ISBN: 044024093X EAN: 9780440240938 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
In rich, atmospheric mysteries set against the backdrop of
modern-day Mississippi, Carolyn Haines has given the
southern belle a brilliantly hip makeover. Now Haines and
her unforgettable heroine, Sarah Booth Delaney, are back
with a tale about skeletons in closets--and
elsewhere.
Crossed Bones
Sarah Booth
Delaney is no ordinary P.I. A born-and-bred Mississippi
belle, she struggles to hold on to her family’s plantation
and keeps up a running conversation with the ghost of her
great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a busybody who decks
herself out in a stunning new outfit every day--and
schemes to save Sarah Booth from spinsterhood. Not one to
wait around for a white knight, Sarah takes on the kind of
cases no one else will touch. Like trying to exonerate a
man accused of murdering Sunflower County’s most popular
musician.
The two men met in prison: Ivory Keys, a
gifted black blues pianist, and Scott Hampton, a rich
white boy turned racist. Somewhere between the two men, a
spark was lit. And by the time he came out of the joint,
Scott Hampton had not only renounced his racist ways, he
had learned to play a blues guitar that made grown women
go weak in the knees. So why did Scott plunge a steel
shank into his mentor’s chest? Ivory’s widow doesn’t think
he did, and she’s paid Sarah Booth to prove it. No easy
task, especially since the delicate racial harmony of
Sunflower County is threatening to come undone under the
heat of Sarah Booth’s investigation.
For a woman
feeling a little heat of her own--navigating between a
rich, available businessman, a married lawman with a
waffling heart, and the sexy bluesman who is angling to
become much more than her client--this case is taking
dangerous twists. A town’s slumbering passions have
awakened with a jolt, a matchmaking ghost is dressed up
like Jackie O, and Sarah Booth is caught between her need
to know the truth and the consequences it will have on her
town--and on her life.
With riveting suspense and
a sparkling cast of unforgettable characters, Carolyn
Haines has woven a rich portrait of a part of America
grappling with its past, its illusions, and its hopes.
Crossed Bones is the most dazzling work yet from a
uniquely gifted writer.
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