Carolyn Haines's Tell-Tale Bones marks the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.
Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner Tinkie are in Sheriff Coleman Peters's office, consulting Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case of her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the investigation of her missing daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, the heiress to a large fortune who disappeared along with her friend Bethany nearly seven years ago. Lydia and Bethany were rumored to be working as human rights organizers abroad, but Elisa suspects Lydia's problems might have stemmed closer to home. Now Lydia's husband, Tope, is set to inherit the fortune, and Elisa believes he's behind the disappearance.
Sarah Booth and Tinkie soon connect the case to a series of mysterious disappearances over the years, as well as to a perplexing recurring dream. With another woman's life at stake, the friends follow an increasingly twisty trail all over Sunflower County, leading them to a tree and an empty grave in the county cemetery. A grave that's said to be haunted...
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- ISBN: 9781250885869
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- ISBN: 9781250885869
- File size: 1948 KB
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December 1, 2022
Scrounging for cold cases at the sheriff's office, Mississippi PI Sarah Booth Delaney and partner Tinkie find Elisa Redd begging the sheriff to reopen the search for her long-missing heiress daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, who vanished with friend Bethany while working as a human rights organizer. Elisa has always blamed Lydia's husband for her disapperance, and now he's set to inherit Lydia's money. Alas, the first steps in the investigation lead Sarah Booth and Tinkie to an empty--and supposedly haunted--grave. With a 40,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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April 15, 2023
Several missing women, an abusive husband, and a fight over money add up to murder and mayhem for a pair of Southern belles with deep roots in the Mississippi Delta. Sarah Booth Delaney has her own haint--that is, ghost--named Jitty, who one day shows up in the guise of Edgar Allan Poe. Shortly afterward, Sarah gets a visit from a very-much-alive medium who's been having disturbing dreams of a heart beating loudly in her house and a bathtub filled with blood. The biggest piece of gossip in town, though, is that Tope Maxwell, lawyer and college football star, is petitioning to have his wife, Lydia Redd, who's been missing for years, declared dead. Rumor has it that Tope wants to remarry and is desperate to inherit Lydia's money. Lydia is the only child of wealthy Elisa Redd, who wants Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah Booth's boyfriend, to reopen the case. Before Lydia vanished along with her best friend, Bethany Carter, while they were working as human rights organizers in Afghanistan, people knew that Tope beat her and spent her money, but everyone was too afraid of Tope and his influential family to say anything. Since Coleman's hands are tied, he suggests Elisa hire Sarah Booth and Tinkie Richmond, her partner in detection, to look into the case. Elisa is afraid that Tope murdered both women, and when his new fiancee falls or is thrown to her death, he becomes the likely suspect in that murder. The determined sleuths dig up a lot of useful information and possible sightings of the missing women, but will that be enough to find them and get Tope arrested? Full of Southern charm and an eye-opening look at the difficulties in ending domestic abuse.COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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