Sarah Booth Delaney Series by Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

4.06 · 391 ratings
  • Them Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #1)
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    Them Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #1)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1999

    A Mystery from the Mississippi Delta, Funny!

  • Buried Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #2)
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    Buried Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #2)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2000

    Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments--but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah--from spinsterhood. Then comes the perfect social occasion: Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party. . . .Ambrose, once a famous man of southern letters, is planning a comeback: a delicious tell-all with a bitchy ex-model as his "biographer... more

  • Splintered Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #3)
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    Splintered Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #3)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2003

    She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems--like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesn't hesitate to get involved. Splintered Bones Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering her husband.. more

  • Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4)
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    Crossed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #4)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 2003

    In rich, atmospheric mysteries set against the backdrop of modern-day Mississippi, Carolyn Haines has given the southern belle a brilliantly hip makeover. Now Haines and her unforgettable heroine, Sarah Booth Delaney, are back with a tale about skeletons in closets--and elsewhere.Crossed BonesSarah Booth Delaney is no ordinary P.I... more

  • Hallowed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #5)
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    Hallowed Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #5)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2004

    The southern Delta has never been more exhilarating, evocative, and wickedly funny than in the mysteries of Carolyn Haines. Now she takes readers on another rollicking ride across the Mississippi cotton fields and into the glamour of New Orleans…as P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney follows a winding trail of murder and deception into a world where ghosts make fashion statements—and where one person’s miracle is another person’s mayhem... more

  • Bones To Pick (Sarah Booth Delaney #6)
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    Bones To Pick (Sarah Booth Delaney #6)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2005

    Wickedly witty and full of more dirt than a debutante's diary, the mysteries of Carolyn Haines bring the southern Delta to roaring, rollicking life... Intrepid P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney has been known to single-handedly save her family's Mississippi plantation, converse with Dahlia House's ghost, and capture a killer or two. But when a local girl is found dead in a cotton field, it's enough to make a lady toss back a Bloody Mary before noon on Sunday... more

  • Ham Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #7)
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    Ham Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #7)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2007

    As bracing as a mint julep on a hot afternoon, Carolyn Haines's Southern Belle mysteries kick sleuthing up a notch with Sarah Booth Delaney, the sassiest heroine this side of the Mississippi. When Broadway comes to the Delta, Death takes a bow�but Sarah Booth is the star suspect.. more

  • Wishbones (Sarah Booth Delaney #8)
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    Wishbones (Sarah Booth Delaney #8)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2008

    It's time for Sarah Booth to pack up her hound dog and her P.I. business and take a shot at stardom! Soon she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie "Body Heat" alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them is undeniable and why not? Graf has already starred in one of Sarah's previous affairs and is well on his way to landing a big part in the sequel.Thrilled as Sarah is to be in Hollywood, her dream-come-true comes at a price... more

  • Greedy Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #9)
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    Greedy Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #9)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2009

    Sarah is no stranger to drama. So when this talented actress and a P.I. hears that her best friend’s husband is suddenly on his deathbed back home, she snaps into “action!” and gets right on the case…Turns out others in Zinnia, Mississippi, have fallen prey to the illness as well. The folks from the Centers for Disease Control are on the scene, but they can’t find a cure for it…or for the boll weevils that are decimating Sunflower County’s cotton crop... more

  • Bone Appetit (Sarah Booth Delaney #10)
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    Bone Appetit (Sarah Booth Delaney #10)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2010

    In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines For many years Jitty, Dahlia House’s resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth Delaney would have a child to inherit the family’s ancestral home. Sarah Booth has always had reservations about being a parent. There was her work as an actress and PI, taking care of the house, not to mention finding the right man... more

  • Bones of a Feather (Sarah Booth Delaney #11)
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    Bones of a Feather (Sarah Booth Delaney #11)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 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 hurry the insurance payout if a reputable PI investigates. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout... more

  • Bonefire of the Vanities (Sarah Booth Delaney #12)
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    Bonefire of the Vanities (Sarah Booth Delaney #12)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings · published 2012

    Despite the wishes of her overprotective fiance, Sarah Booth Delaney can't give up her detective work, no matter how dangerous it becomes. It's too much a part of her. On this case, avoiding danger might be impossible--she's on the trail of a porn-star-turned-psychic operating from a haunted estate on the edge of town... more

  • Smartly Bones by Carolyn Haines (Sarah Booth Delaney #13)
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    Smartly Bones by Carolyn Haines (Sarah Booth Delaney #13)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2013

    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... more

  • Shorty Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #13.5)
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    Shorty Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #13.5)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2014

    From award-winning author Carolyn Haines comes a charming story starring feisty Southern belle and private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.Sarah Booth just wants to help her fiancé recover from a leg wound in peace...Until, that is, an ex-porn star declares that she's being stalked, and Sarah Booth suddenly finds herself in the midst of a wild case with no idea what to believe or whom to trust.

  • Booty Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #14)
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    Booty Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #14)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2014

    It's time to catch a killer or walk the plank for P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney in Booty Bones, award-winning author Carolyn Haines's latest whodunit. Yo ho! Sarah Booth Delaney's fiancé, Graf, is recovering from a severe leg injury, and Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She's arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast... more

  • Bones on the Bayou (Sarah Booth Delaney #14.5)
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    Bones on the Bayou (Sarah Booth Delaney #14.5)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2014

    Christmas is six days away—and Sarah Booth Delaney has her hands full! To honor a group of international investors, Shaw, Mississippi, resurrects the old custom of drifting miniature, lighted Christmas floats down Silver Bayou. The Italian delegation from Venice may bring much-needed new jobs and commercial opportunities to this small, struggling Delta town. Among the investors is notorious womanizer, Enzo Aceto... more

  • Bone to Be Wild (Sarah Booth Delaney #15)
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    Bone to Be Wild (Sarah Booth Delaney #15)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2015

    Sarah Booth Delaney helps her old flame Scott Hampton investigate a mysterious message threatening him and his bandmates. The threat becomes reality when the bartender from Scott's club is gunned down in a drive-by and Sarah Booth is caught in a race against the clock as she tries to stop a killer from striking again...

  • Guru Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #15.2)
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    Guru Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #15.2)

    Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2015

    Listening Length: 1 hour and 57 minutesZinnia, Mississippi, rolls out the red carpet for controversial food activist Priya Karsan. When the event turns bizarre - and downright deadly - PI partners Sarah Booth and Tinkie are on the case. But it's the detective agency's four-legged gumshoes, Sweetie Pie, Chablis, and Pluto, who save the day.

  • Jingle Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #15.5)
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    Jingle Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #15.5)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2015

    Jingle Bones, an e-original Christmas story featuring Mississippi PI Sarah Booth Delaney, offers all the Southern charm and zany adventure Carolyn Haines's fans have come to expect--and more.Sarah Booth just wants the perfect Christmas holiday. Even with the dissolution of her engagement, she refuses to lose her Christmas spirit... more

  • Rock-a-Bye Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #16)
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    Rock-a-Bye Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #16)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2016

    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 fiancé. 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 leading up to the door and back down the driveway... more

  • Bones and Arrows (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.5)
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    Bones and Arrows (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.5)

    Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2016

    Love hurts… In Zinnia a criminal Cupid turns into a case for Delaney Detective Agency. Gods, goddesses, slaves, centurions—all are gathered at Tinkie Richmond’s elegant home to celebrate the holiday for love. The costume Valentine’s party is the hot ticket in the Mississippi Delta. But Tinkie’s title of Queen Bee of Delta Society becomes jeopardized when her Valentine’s guests are all robbed... more

  • Clacking Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.75)
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    Clacking Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.75)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2016

    EVEN THE DEAD WANT REVENGE! Cliburn Plantation is a ruin. Cursed by a voodoo priestess because of the cruelty of Ezekiel Cliburn, it’s home to the ghosts of Haitian mourners, slaves, river pirates, and tragedy. When Jitty, the resident ghost of Dahlia House and Sarah Booth Delaney’s nemesis and friend, asks for help, Sarah Booth takes on the nether world in this creepy Halloween tale. Jitty’s husband, who was killed in the Civil War, has disappeared from the Great Beyond... more

  • Midnight Mysteries (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.75)
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    Midnight Mysteries (Sarah Booth Delaney #16.75)

    Ritter Ames, Carolyn Haines, Karen Cantwell, Connie Shelton, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker, Eleanor Cawood Jones, Morgana Best, Maria Grazia Swan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2016

    Nine Cozy Tales by Nine Bestselling AuthorsRitter Ames – “Organized for Masked Motives” (Organized Mysteries series) Kate McKenzie never dreamed when she started her business, Stacked in Your Favor, she’d spend nearly as much time crime solving as organizing. But with Halloween approaching and too many items on the to-do list, she and Meg Berman find themselves in another puzzling dilemma—where every answer leads to another question... more

  • Sticks and Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #17)
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    Sticks and Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #17)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings · published 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...until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a bestselling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and cruelty... more

  • A Gift of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #19)
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    A Gift of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #19)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2018

    Christmas comes to Zinnia, Mississippi―Sarah Booth Delaney must solve a case as the holiday approaches, in this new cozy mystery from Carolyn Haines.Christmas is just around the corner and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are preparing for a festive holiday season. After a turbulent season of solving cases, they’re ready for some holiday cheer. Sarah Booth and Sheriff Coleman Peters have finally gotten together, and this is the first holiday they’re celebrating as a couple... more

  • Game of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #20)
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    Game of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #20)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2019

    The next charming mystery from Carolyn Haines featuring spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Dr. Frank Hafner is an archeologist working on excavating a new-found Native American temple site in the Mississippi Delta. He's also too handsome for his own good, and a bit of a flirt. Oddly enough, it's the first quality that gets him in trouble when he discovers the ritualistic murder of one of his archeological crew... more

  • The Devil's Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #21)
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    The Devil's Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #21)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2020

    Spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a thorny murder while away on a girls' weekend.Sarah Booth and Cece are in Lucedale, Mississippi, where the newly-pregnant Tinkie is treating her friends to a girls' weekend at the fabulous new Bexley B&B... more

  • Enchanted Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #21.5)
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    Enchanted Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #21.5)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2020

    In Carolyn Haines's Enchanted Bones, PI Sarah Booth Delaney comes to the rescue in a short mystery set in Zinnia, Mississippi, that will delight fans and new readers alike.A lost little girl is just about the last thing Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney expects to see while horseback riding one evening in the woods, and her concern deepens when she reads the note pinned to the girl's it says she is cursed, and has consequently been abandoned... more

  • A Garland of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #22)
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    A Garland of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #22)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2020

    Spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a string of strange accidents while celebrating the holiday season in Carolyn Haines's cozy A Garland of BonesSarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties. Each little Delta town has a special Christmas activity, and Sarah Booth’s bff and detective partner, Tinkie, has arranged to rent a limo for the gang and drive to Columbus, MS, to stay in a B&B... more

  • Independent Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #23)
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    Independent Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #23)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2021

    Carolyn Haines's Independent Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.When Dr. Alala Diakos, a visiting professor of Greek literature, comes to teach at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, it doesn't take long for controversy to follow... more

  • Lady of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #24)
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    Lady of Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #24)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 2022

    Carolyn Haines's Lady of Bones is the next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.It’s Halloween season in Mississippi as Sarah Booth and the gang gather to decorate and gush over Tinkie’s new baby, Maylin... more

  • Tell-Tale Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #26)
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    Tell-Tale Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #26)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2023

    Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner Tinkie are in Sheriff Coleman Peters's office, asking Coleman about cold cases, when Elisa Redd storms in with a case her own. She wants Coleman to reopen the investigation of her missing daughter, Lydia Redd Maxell, the heiress to a large fortune who disappeared along with her friend Bethany 10 years ago, while the two of them were working as human rights organizers... more

  • Lights, Camera, Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #27)
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    Lights, Camera, Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #27)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2024

    Delaney Detective Agency gets a taste of the spotlight when they are called to a case on a movie set in Greenville, MS, right on the Mississippi River. Marlon Brandon, heir to a wealthy and influential political family, has brought a film crew to town to film a drama about the 1927 flood that submerged a great deal of Greenville. 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... more

  • Doggone Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #29)
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    Doggone Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney #29)

    Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2025

    The next novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as “Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney.After a dog belonging to local pet activist Tilly Lawson is snatched right out of her backyard in Sunflower County, MS, Sarah Booth and the Delaney Detective Agency are up to their ears in concerned pet owners... more

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