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Title details for Smarty Bones by Carolyn Haines - Available

Smarty Bones

#13 in series

by Carolyn Haines
Kate Forbes
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Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she can not only identify the corpse, she can also prove the woman's scandalous role in the nation's history. Olive takes it a step too far, though, when she starts connecting elite Zinnia families with the same scandal. Dander up, Zinnia's society ladies know only one way to handle Olive: they call on the private investigative services of Sarah Booth Delaney. But Olive's real agenda is clear as Mississippi mud, and when Sarah Booth discovers a present-day dead body, she knows there's more than just family pride and Southern heritage at stake. If she can't find the murderer and fast, it might just be Sarah Booth's life on the line next. Carolyn Haines pulls out all the stops in Smarty Bones, the next charming, sassy, Southern-fried Sarah Booth Delaney mystery.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Sarah Booth Delaney

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 9, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470330705
      • File size: 331279 KB
      • Duration: 11:30:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Sarah Booth Delaney, a seasoned Mississippi private eye, finds herself going head to head with a visiting academic who's intent on investigating a legend--with violent results. For this Southern mystery, narrator Kate Forbes uses authentic-sounding accents and handles both the male and female characters with ease. Her narration helps to flesh out an eclectic range of characters as listeners follow Sarah's investigation of a contemporary case involving a corpse. The case throws up plenty of twists, including a mysterious body believed to date back to the Civil War. In the face of several plot points that strain credibility, Forbes's well-toned narration helps to ensure that the story never moves into the absurd. K.J.P. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 18, 2013
      At the start of Haines’s hokey 13th Sarah Booth Delaney mystery (after 2012’s Bonefire of the Vanities), Dr. Olive Twist, a professor at a prestigious New England college, arrives in Zinnia, Miss., to investigate the 150-year-old exhumed corpse of the Lady in Red—a mysterious beauty whose enigmatic past may connect prominent local families to a Lincoln assassination attempt. Eager to share this theory with anyone within earshot, Olive ruffles local feathers. Scandal and PI Sarah Booth arrive on the scene when the body of Olive’s assistant is discovered poisoned in Olive’s hotel room. Jitty, Sarah Booth’s whimsical ghost confidante, serves up some comic relief. While Olive offers predictable stereotypes of Southern culture, the natives react in such hackneyed and simplistic ways that some readers may feel Olive’s complaints are justified. Cheery prose is a plus, but an improbable antebellum twist will dismay some historians. Agent: Marian Young, the Young Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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