Ideas come to writers in the craziest way. This is the “seed of the story” for my latest Sarah Booth adventure. I woke up one morning thinking about the Edgar Allan Poe short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart.” I hadn’t read it in many years, but I found my Poe anthology and sat down for a…
CHAPTER 1 There’s nothing like springtime in the Deep South, especially lower Mississippi. The counties warmed by the coastal breezes off the Gulf of Mexico spring to life with a palette that takes my breath away. When it comes to the season of showy flowers, the southernmost counties are floozies with a celebrated taste for…
In A Gift of Bones, Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi and Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery Carolyn Haines. Take a visual tour through A Gift of Bones with GIFnotes! Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holiday season.…
Almost two decades ago, I was sitting at my computer looking out the window at my horses grazing in the pasture. The dogs were sleeping, and the cats were plotting anarchy, but I had bigger problems. I’d finished my last book contract, and I was in that delicious place where I could write anything I…
Charmed Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 18th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series. Zinnia, Mississippi, is rife with quirky characters, but the arrival of three sister witches―and their intention to open a Wiccan boarding school―sets the small town on its ear. And bodies begin to accumulate as a result. Faith, Hope, and Charity…
Sticks and Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 17th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series (available May 16, 2017). Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year’s Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter Garden party at the Prince Albert Hotel. It’s a dazzling success ……
“Guru Bones” by Carolyn Haines is a Sarah Booth Delaney short mystery. 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…
Rock-a-Bye Bones is the 12th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series (Available May 17, 2016). Sarah Booth Delaney knows the perfect way to begin recovering from both the recent attack on Scott Hampton’s blues club and her broken heart. She’s going to host a Thanksgiving feast for all of her friends at her…
Jingle Bones by Carolyn Haines is an e-original Christmas novella featuring PI Sarah Booth Delaney (Available for only $1.99 below). 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…
Booty Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 14th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series where a murdered treasure hunter interrupts Sarah's romantic tropical Gulf Coast getaway with her fiancé (available May 20, 2014). Sarah Booth Delaney’s fiancé, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows…
