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    Charmed Bones
    Charmed Bones
    Charmed Bones
    Audiobook11 hours

    Charmed Bones

    Written by Carolyn Haines

    Narrated by Kate Forbes

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    About this audiobook

    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 Harrington are sexy and smart. They're setting up their boarding school in an old dairy?a piece of property with tremendous development potential. And they're standing in the way of "progress," according to some in the town. When young Corey Fontana goes missing, Delaney Detective Agency is hired to find the youth?who's well known as a local hooligan. His mother, Kitten Fontana, who is married to the kind of land development, believes the witches have abducted her son and makes no bones about it. She's willing to pay hard cash to find her son, especially if she can implicate the witches in his disappearance. When Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner, Tinkie Richmond, find Corey, unharmed, it is only the beginning of a series of events that include midnight dances under a full moon, love potions, and murder. Are the sister witches criminals. or victims? Do they truly have magical powers, as they claim? Sarah Booth and Tinkie must find the answer before more people are harmed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781980002338
    Charmed Bones
    Author

    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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    • 5/5
      Just about my favorite book yet in this amazing series! With a kick of paranormal to boot! already counting down until the next book.
    • 3/5
      This isn’t a mystery you want to read if you are interested in logic.
      As with most of the books in the series, listen to them for the enjoyment of Sarah Booth Delaney, Tinky, CC and others.

      Try not to get aggravated when the detective agency is broken into through a window and they don’t bother to call the police — it never even crossed their mind as they are putting back together they are ram sacked office…: even though Sarah booth has a relationship with the sheriff. It’s things like this that drive me crazy—-they should know better!!! But I still listen because they’re fun lighthearted listening.
      TIRED of her “haint”. Tho.
    • 3/5
      They can't all be winners, but man, this one was extra-disappointing. I don't care for romance for the sake of romance, but I do enjoy a good sub-plot, if the characters have chemistry and it's well written. Many books ago, Sarah Booth had an almost-romance with a character, and I was hooked on their dynamic, and bummed when it didn't work. Then after many, many books and many other romantic interests, I finally got my wish; sadly the joy was dinged by one of the most badly edited stories I've seen on paper in a long time (not being a reader of self-published books). This could have been an amazing story: witches, spells, poisonings, there's-something-in-the-woods, huge claw marks on doors, old houses with secret rooms and tunnels, and my favorite romantic interest back in the saddle. But if this story wasn't rushed to press, it was definitely neglected by management; major re-writes took place and nobody followed up with proofing to check for continuity. The results include characters who explicitly remain behind only to suddenly be participating in conversation, and Sarah Booth commenting on kicking the bad guy, giving him a limp, when she never actually kicked him. Unfortunately, these are just the two I remember - there were others, including a scene where characters change mid-paragraph). Continuity errors aside, the plotting was a little bit of a mess too: too much going on and not tightly enough written, so the reader really has no hope of following events. To be fair, Sarah Booth struggled too, so maybe this was deliberate and I just don't care for the device. I also don't care for the plot twist at the end; it's the second time in as many books where it's been used, and it leaves me feeling played. If not for the characters, whom I love (although I'm over Tinky and her baby angst), and the familiar landscape of Zinnia, the rating for this would be so much lower. It's obvious that Haines didn't phone this in: nobody just phones in a plot as convoluted as this, but her editors and Minotaur screwed her and her readers by printing this half-finished effort. And that's tragic; Haines is worlds better than this and after 17 books, readers deserve better. Here's hoping #19 reflects previous efforts, and 18 is just an aberration.
    • 4/5
      Witches in Zinnia? They are bound to raise some hackles. But it is land that people are greedy for.
    • 5/5
      Sarah Booth Delaney is back! This time it's witches and magic that highlight the scene in this the next chapter of Sarah Booth and her best friend and PI partner, Tinkie Richmond.Three sisters, Hope, Faith and Charity Harrington, have come to Zinnia and they are opening up a Wiccan School on the old dairy farm owned by the painter, Trevor (?). Kitten Fontana (what a nutcase!!) is furious about witches moving into her beloved Zinnia and decides they need to go. Her and her husband are fairly wealthy and she drops $10,000.00 checks like pennies falling from heaven. She hires Sarah Booth and Tinkie to do several jobs for her. The major one is investigating these sisters and seeing if their story is heads up.That's when the really quirky characters just start coming up out of the woodwork. I sometimes had trouble keeping up between Malvik and Spurlock. Don't ask me why. During all of this, strange things are happening. People go missing, some turn up dead and some are just lost somewhere on this dairy farm. It sounds like a very creepy place many times in the book.My mind kept going back and forth on these witches - are they good or are they bad? And, I think at times that they have some REALLY rotten luck.The book kept me mesmerized and I sped right through this action packed book. I even had several laughs. Some of these people are so dumb that you just can't help it.And I LOVED the zombie scene. HA!I think this is an excellent series and I just love the covers. Now, I'm back to waiting for Sarah Booth again.Thanks to St. Martin's Press and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.