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.

Doreen Mallory claims to have the gift of healing. So why is she unable to prevent the mysterious death of her own child? With nearly everyone convinced of her guilt and law enforcement determined to bring her down, Doreen has only the sleuthing southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney to turn to.

Fiesty Southern belle and private detective Sarah Booth Delaney heads back into action when her friend, Eulalee McBride, is accused of murdering her cheating husband.

"Marlon Brandon, heir to a wealthy and influential political family, has brought a film crew to [Greenville, Mississippi] to film a drama about the 1927 flood that submerged a great deal of [the town]. Marlon wants the world to know the story of the flood--and the heroic role the Brandon ancestors played in rescuing dozens of local residents from drowning. Or at least that was the plan until he disappeared. If this weren't concerning enough, the...

"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Missippia, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things with her fianc.̌ One bitterly cold night at her family's ancestral home in Zinnia, Sarah Booth hears what sounds like a kitten as she passes the front door. She opens the door to find a newborn baby in a basket on her front porch - with bloody footsteps...

Sarah Booth can't give up her detective work no matter how dangerous it becomes. This time she takes a job as a maid for a wealthy old lady whom someone is trying to separate from her fortune.