Greedy
Bones
A
Southern Belle Mystery with Sarah Booth Delaney
Carolyn
Haines
St.
Martin's Minotaur (Hardcover)
ISBN-10: 0-312-37710-X (031237710X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37710-6 (9780312377106)
Publication Date: July 2009
List Price: $24.99
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Sarah Booth and Tinkie have returned to Zinnia,
Mississippi to find Oscar, Tinkie’s husband, near
death—and no one is certain what happened to him. But Oscar
isn’t the only person who comes down with a strange malady.
Deputy Gordon Walters falls ill, as do two female realtors. And the
Carlisle plantation is the only thing that connects all four victims.
Sheriff Coleman Peters is forced to call in experts from the Centers
for Disease Control. Tinkie implores Sarah Booth to find the cause of
the illness so maybe Doc Sawyer can find a cure.
The clock is ticking as Sarah Booth begins to dig into the tortured
past of the Carlisle plantation and the family whose name the land
bears. There’s a lot at stake, but Sarah Booth
doesn’t really know how much. The plot is more complicated
than she ever thought.
Review:
Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney returns to her ancestral home
Dahlia House in Mississippi to be at the side of her good friend Tinkie
when her husband falls ill in Greedy
Bones,
the ninth mystery in this series by Carolyn Haines.
Sarah Booth had been in Hollywood trying her hand at acting. But Tinkie
is more than just a friend; she's her partner in the Delaney Detective
Agency. Her husband and several others are suffering from a mysterious
ailment, one that begins with a raging fever, then chills and rashes,
and finally a coma. Then Deputy Gordon Walters comes down the same
symptoms. Is it viral? Bacterial? Contagious? The only thing everyone
has in common is they had visited the Carlisle cotton plantation. Sarah
Booth isn't one to wait around for answers and decides to take matters
into her own hands.
She learns that the Carlisle cotton plantation had recently been
replanted with an aggressive strain of the plant. Genetically altered,
Sarah Booth wonders? The mutant boll weevils suggest something is
amiss. The plantation is being maintained by the Mississippi
Agricultural Team following the mysterious deaths of the previous
owners. But they seem unusually reticent about discussing events on the
property. Sarah Booth suspects they know more, much more, than they're
letting on and dives head first into a sea of danger.
What makes this series so delightful is the presence of Sarah Booth's
companion spirit, Jitty, who inhabits Dahlia House. Jitty plays the
older sister to Sarah Booth, a 200 year old older sister that is, and
advises and scolds her, but more importantly laughs with her. This
paranormal relationship is for the most part enchanting, and while
largely played out in parallel to the primary plot, doesn't detract
from Sarah Booth's investigation into the secret behind the facade of
the Carlisle plantation. For readers who may be wary of paranormal
mysteries, fear not; Greedy Bones
is more Southern charm than Southern gothic.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Greedy Bones and to St. Martin's Minotaur for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2009 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Mysteries in this series ...
Them
Bones
Bantam Books (Hardcover), October 1999
ISBN-10: 0-553-58171-6 (0553581716)
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-58171-3 (9780553581713)
Buried
Bones
Bantam Books (Hardcover), November 2000
ISBN-10: 0-553-58172-4 (0553581724)
ISBN-13: 978-0-553-58172-0 (9780553581720)
Splintered
Bones
Delacorte Press (Hardcover), February 2002
ISBN-10: 0-385-33590-3 (0385335903)
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-33590-4 (9780385335904)
Crossed
Bones
Delacorte Press (Hardcover), April 2003
ISBN-10: 0-385-33659-4 (0385336594)
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-33659-8 (9780385336598)
Hallowed
Bones
Delacorte Press (Hardcover), March 2004
ISBN-10: 0-385-33778-7 (0385337787)
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-33778-6 (9780385337786)
Bones
to Pick
Kensington Books (Hardcover), July 2006
ISBN-10: 0-7582-1090-6 (0758210906)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-1090-6 (9780758210906)
Ham
Bones
Kensington Books (Hardcover), July 2007
ISBN-10: 0-7582-1092-2 (0758210922)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7582-1092-0 (9780758210920)
Wishbones
St. Martin's Minotaur (Hardcover), June 2008
ISBN-10: 0-312-37708-8 (0312377088)
ISBN-13: 978-0312-37708-3 (9780312377083)
Greedy Bones
St. Martin's Minotaur (Hardcover), July 2009
ISBN-10: 0-312-37710-X (031237710X)
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-37710-6 (9780312377106)
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Location(s) referenced: Mississippi.
