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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 and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. 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.

Exclusive Excerpt: The Devil’s Bones by Carolyn Haines

By Carolyn Haines

April 27, 2020

CHAPTER 1 There’s nothing like springtime in the Deep South, especially lower Mississippi. The counties warmed by the coastal breezes off the Gulf of Mexico spring to life with a palette that takes my breath away. When it comes to the season of showy flowers, the southernmost counties are floozies with a celebrated taste for…

A Gift of Bones by Carolyn Haines

A Gift of Bones: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

In A Gift of Bones, Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi and Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery Carolyn Haines.  Take a visual tour through A Gift of Bones with GIFnotes! Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holiday season.…

Bones and the Mississippi Delta: The Origins of Sarah Booth Delaney

By Carolyn Haines

May 17, 2018

Almost two decades ago, I was sitting at my computer looking out the window at my horses grazing in the pasture. The dogs were sleeping, and the cats were plotting anarchy, but I had bigger problems. I’d finished my last book contract, and I was in that delicious place where I could write anything I…

Carolyn Haines Excerpt: Charmed Bones

By Carolyn Haines

May 1, 2018

Charmed Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 18th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series. 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…

Sticks and Bones by Carolyn Haines

Sticks and Bones: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 9, 2017

Sticks and Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 17th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series (available May 16, 2017). Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year’s Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter Garden party at the Prince Albert Hotel. It’s a dazzling success ……

“Guru Bones”: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

March 14, 2017

“Guru Bones” by Carolyn Haines is a Sarah Booth Delaney short mystery. Southern-belle-turned-PI Sarah Booth Delaney is unenthusiastic at best when her friends rope her into attending a health food and lifestyle seminar. Priya Karsan, an internationally known activist, is in Zinnia for a lecture. But the lecture takes a turn for the deadly when…

Rock-a-Bye Bones by Carolyn Haines

Rock-a-Bye Bones: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 14, 2016

Rock-a-Bye Bones is the 12th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series (Available May 17, 2016). Sarah Booth Delaney knows the perfect way to begin recovering from both the recent attack on Scott Hampton’s blues club and her broken heart. She’s going to host a Thanksgiving feast for all of her friends at her…

Jingle Bones: Holiday Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

December 15, 2015

Jingle Bones by Carolyn Haines is an e-original Christmas novella featuring PI Sarah Booth Delaney (Available for only $1.99 below). Sarah Booth just wants the perfect Christmas holiday. Even with the dissolution of her engagement, she refuses to lose her Christmas spirit. But when Theodora Prince—an ex classmate and current Pastor's wife—comes calling with a…

Booty Bones: A New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 15, 2014

Booty Bones by Carolyn Haines is the 14th book in the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series where a murdered treasure hunter interrupts Sarah's romantic tropical Gulf Coast  getaway with her fiancé (available May 20, 2014). Sarah Booth Delaney’s fiancé, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows…

Bones of a Feather by Carolyn Haines

Bones of a Feather: New Excerpt

By Carolyn Haines

May 26, 2011

When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don’t have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can…

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