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    Them Bones
    Them Bones
    Them Bones
    Audiobook11 hours

    Them Bones

    Written by Carolyn Haines

    Narrated by Kate Forbes

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    About this audiobook

    Harper Lee Award winner Carolyn Haines has won fans nationwide for her offbeat Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries set in the Mississippi Delta. The first entry in this acclaimed series, Them Bones finds Sarah in a bad way: broke, unemployed, 30 and unwed, and about to lose her family's plantation. But this Southern Belle isn't licked yet. Involving herself in a slightly shady enterprise, Sarah soon gets roped into a decades-old murder investigation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 4, 2013
    ISBN9781470337421
    Them Bones
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    Carolyn Haines

    Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of the Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series and a number of other books in mystery and crime, including the Pluto's Snitch paranormal-historical mystery series, and Trouble, the black cat detective romantic suspense books. She is the recipient of the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and the Mississippi Writers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a former journalist, bartender, photographer, farmhand, and college professor and lives on a farm where she works with rescue cats, dogs, and horses.

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    • 3/5
      This Mississippi Delta mystery is cute and charming. I'll read more of this series.
    • 4/5
      Sarah Booth has a big problem. If she doesn’t get a lot of money really soon she is going to lose her family home. Her parents are deceased, and she has no one to call on for help. Well, actually, there is someone who gives her a lot of advice: a ghost who was the nanny to a long dead relative. Some of the advice is good, but some is likely to get Sarah Booth in trouble. A series of misadventures leads Sarah Booth into committing a crime, then being instrumental in solving that crime, to becoming an unofficial P. I., to almost getting killed in the process. Whew! Whenever Sarah Booth is around, you can be sure you will be highly entertained! The writing has a delightful southern flavor, as do the characters. This first book in the series will undoubtedly leave you wanting more.
    • 5/5
      Sarah Booth Delany has returned to her home in Zinnia, Mississippi. After a failed career in New York, she returns to her ancestral home, Dahlia House, over thirty, unemployed and unwed. Also living at Dahlia House is Jitty, a her great-great-grandmother's nanny - and a ghost who is now haunting Sarah Booth.Yet Sarah Booth is a 'Daddy's Girl', whose only job is to marry well and enjoy the privileges that come with it. But she is not like the others of her ilk, she is unconventional and not interested in marrying the first man who asks her that is rich. She returns home to Zinnia Mississippi, still unwed and now unemployed, and about to lose her ancestral home, Dahlia House. Desperate for money, she listens to Jitty, who convinces her that the quickest way to get it is to kidnap Chablis, her best friend Tinkie's dog, and then ransom him back. So she sends Tinkie a ransom note for $5000 and Tinkie, frantic, wants Sarah Booth to deliver the money and retrieve her dog. Having done this, Tinkie declares that Sarah Booth is now a PI, and hires her to find out why an ex-boyfriend, Hamilton Garrett V, has recently returned home. What this does is unleash an entire series of events regarding a 20-year-old murder case that leads to questions nobody wants asked and threats on Sarah Booth's life. But she presses on, because by now she is immersed in the case and has some questions of her own. It doesn't help that she's attracted to the murder victim's son, who has been living abroad since the murder, and has now returned home and wants nothing more than for her to drop the whole thing.You see, years ago, Hamilton was exiled to Europe when first his father, then his mother were killed. There are other reasons he was sent to Europe, and after setting sight on Hamilton, and immediately being drawn to him, she ultimately decides that the deep mystery surrounding his family and the reason he was sent to Europe are something she must find out. She first convinces herself it is for her friend Tinkie, but soon realizes she is doing it for herself.While she is investigating Hamilton, she also begins investigating the two murders (under the guise of writing a fictional book), since she believes that Tinkie deserves to know the truth about the situation. Sarah Booth begins discovering secrets, and soon finds out what everyone really wants her to do is just leave it all alone and forget the past - which she is not about to do.This book moved along at a great pace, Sarah Booth is headstrong, her conversations with Jitty are interesting, to say the least, and the descriptions of the area where she lives are colorful. Ms. Haines has a terrific way with words, and draws you deep into the delta of the story, wanting to know more.What I really found the most interesting were the women. The way the women interacted with each other was extremely telling in how the Daddy's Girls were different, and of a different class. Sarah Booth was somewhere in the middle, now disdained by the true Daddy's Girls, but still one of them, and as such, those that weren't kept her at arm's length.This book was delightful, the mystery well done, the characters described wonderfully. I found it all intriguing enough to want to pick up the next one immediately. I highly recommend this and can't wait to read the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      LOVE this series, and will find the rest and read them, too!
    • 4/5
      I've seen this book on the bookstore shelves for years and always picked it up, but then put it back down again. The whole dog-napping bit seemed too stupid to me. But it's really such a very small part of the book - literally less than a chapter, and the rest of the story was quite good. I really enjoyed the characters - the author painted them very clearly - and the setting of the Mississippi Delta really came to life and added to the mystery of the story. I didn't see the end coming and was thoroughly, pleasantly surprised. I'm looking forward to continuing on with the series.
    • 4/5
      pretty funny. Love Jitty, the ghost
    • 4/5
      I continue my project of reading a mystery set in every state. The
      other requirement is that it be by an author I haven't read before. I
      chose the first in Carolyn Haines' series set in the Mississippi
      Delta, THEM BONES. What an enjoyable book, and it also reinforced my
      understanding that every region of our country (and our world) has its
      beauty and those who love it, even if that place sounds like hell on
      earth to me! (I don't like heat and humidity.) Actually, THEM BONES is
      set about this time of year, when the Delta sounds quite pleasant to
      this unregenerate Yankee. Protagonist Sarah Booth Delaney is broke,
      the last of her line, and trying to hold on to the family plantation.
      She's tried life elsewhere, but she really loves her home even as she
      can see the problems in the culture in which she was raised.
      Complications for Sarah Booth include Jitty, the ghost of her
      great-grandma's nanny, who keeps showing up to give her advice -- some
      good, some not so good. There is a touch of Southern Gothic to the
      plot, a little romance, and a lot of local color. This is exactly the
      kind of book I was looking for when I began this project, and I will
      certainly keep reading this series, which I'm happy to see continues
      to this day.
    • 4/5
      Sarah Booth Delaney, much like Scarlett O'Hara, is desperate to save her family home, Dahlia House. The bank is knocking at the door everyday, so she and the resident ghost, Jitty, cook up a plan involving dog-napping. She's so successful, she's hired by Tinkie Bellcase Richmond to delve into the Garrett family secrets to unearth what happened almost two decades ago. The return of the mysterious Hamilton Garrett the fifth has many women in Zinnia very curious. This was a fun southern mystery, where everyone has three names or a number attached to them and 'Daddy's Girls' learn how to be real southern women. Sarah Booth is definitely a little more Scarlett than Stephanie, but it was a promising beginning to a new to me series.
    • 3/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though one of the main characters is the ghost of a long dead nanny who still haunts the family plantation. Sarah Booth Delaney is the heroine, bravely striving to hold off the bank's foreclosure of her home, falls into a surprisingly profitable new career as a PI. Great fun.read in one sitting, June 1, 2011.
    • 5/5
      Delightful series...picked this up on a whim...andreally enjoy it. Sarah Booth Delaney and her "ghostfriend" Jitty are great characters. I find this seriesa little "edgier" than a cozy...and like the subtle humor.
    • 5/5
      Sarah Booth Delaney needs to save the farm. With no source of ready cash, she and her resident ghost hatch a plan to kidnap her friend Tinkie's treasured Yorkie. After "solving" that mystery, Tinkie hires her again to solve an old murder. This is a funny and entertaining story. Think Stephanie Plum in the sticks.