SummarySarah Booth Delaney is no ordinary P.I. A born-and-bred
Mississippi belle, she struggles to hold on to her family's
plantation and keeps up a running conversation with the
ghost of her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody
who decks herself out in a stunning new outfit every day--
and schemes to save Sarah Booth from spinsterhood. Not one
to wait around for a white knight, Sarah takes on the kind
of cases no one else will touch. Like trying to exonerate a
man accused of murdering Sunflower County's most popular
musician. The two men met in prison: Ivory Keys, a gifted black blues
pianist, and Scott Hampton, a rich white boy turned racist.
Somewhere between the two men, a spark was lit. And by the
time he came out of the joint, Scott Hampton had not only
renounced his racist ways, he had learned to play a blues
guitar that made grown women go weak in the knees. So why
did Scott plunge a steel shank into his mentor's chest?
Ivory's widow doesn't think he did, and she's paid Sarah
Booth to prove it. No easy task, especially since the
delicate racial harmony of Sunflower County is threatening
to come undone under the heat of Sarah Booth's
investigation. For a woman feeling a little heat of her own--navigating
between a rich, available businessman, a married lawman
with a waffling heart, and the sexy bluesman who is angling
to become much more than her client--this case is taking
dangerous twists. A town's slumbering passions have
awakened with a jolt, a matchmaking ghost is dressed up
like Jackie O, and Sarah Booth is caught between her need
to know the truth and the consequences it will have on her
town--and on her life. With riveting suspense and a sparkling cast of
unforgettable characters, Carolyn Haines has woven a rich
portrait of a part of America grappling with its past, its
illusions, and its hopes. Crossed Bones is the most
dazzling work yet from a uniquely gifted writer.
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