Independent Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, Book 23
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Carolyn Haines. (2021). Independent Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, Book 23. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Carolyn Haines. 2021. Independent Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, Book 23. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Carolyn Haines, Independent Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, Book 23. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

Carolyn Haines. Independent Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, Book 23. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

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   • bioText: 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, the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, and the Mississippi Writers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. 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.
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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. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly earns the admiration of many—and the ire of others. During a speech in the park, in which Alala tries to organize the women of Zinnia to demand equal pay, the crowd gets unruly, with men heckling the professor. And when PI Sarah Booth Delaney finds a sniper rifle and scope in the bushes, she begins to worry that there are more than fighting words at stake.
Sarah Booth calls her boyfriend, Sheriff Coleman Peters, who offers the protection of the Zinnia police department, but Alala rejects him, saying she has no use for the law or men. And when a notorious domestic abuser is found dead the next day, suspicions turn to Alala herself, who was overheard bragging that she would take him down. Tensions deepen when connections are drawn between Alala and two similar, previous deaths.
But Sarah Booth doesn't want to believe Alala is a murderer, and when the professor shows up at Sarah Booth's doorstep, asking her to find the real criminal, Sarah Booth embarks on a case stretching across the Delta. Yet Alala remains at the center of it all, and Sarah Booth can't help but wonder if the killer has been with her all along...

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   • source: Woman's World
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     "Danger and adventure ensue."

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   • source: Library Journal on Independent Bones
   • content: "[With] room for humor as dogs and cats assist with the investigation. Fans of the series will enjoy the depth of the story, along with the characters' personal development."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Independent Bones
   • content: "Cozy fans attuned to the #MeToo movement may want to check this one out."
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   • source: Booklist on Bone to Be Wild
   • content: "Haines shows Sarah at her madcap best back in her hometown in this clever adventure. This is a crazy cozy with a little something for everyone: paranormal doings, plenty of Evanovich zaniness, and a cast of eccentrics."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Rock-a-Bye Bones
   • content: "Enjoyable...Jitty, the headstrong ghost who shares Sarah Booth's family home, is just one of the many well-drawn characters who help bring this Southern tale to colorful life."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly on Game of Bones
   • content: "Distinctive characters and an atmospheric setting elevate this paranormal cozy. Series fans and newcomers alike will be satisfied."
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   • source: Booklist on Game of Bones
   • content: "A dark mystery, effectively framed by its well-drawn Mississippi Delta setting."
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     December 1, 2020
     

     Haines's Independent Bones features PI Sarah Booth Delaney, caught up with protecting a visiting professor of Greek literature at Ole Miss whose radical feminism may have sparked murder (40,000-copy first printing). In Jonasson's latest, Una is teaching in a remote Icelandic village when she discovers dark secrets the polite if distant villages have kept hidden for generations--perhaps involving The Girl Who Died (50,000-copy first printing). A peasant girl is murdered in a northern Chinese village, and exiled inspector Lu Fei takes the case in Klingborg's Thief of Souls (75,000-copy first printing). Brought back by Lupica in 2018, PI Sunny Randall investigates the suicide of best friend Spike's 20-year old niece in Robert B. Parker's Payback. In 1910, a senior barrister is found dead in a notorious London slum, and junior barrister Daniel Pitt endangers his family by investigating in Perry's Death with a Double Edge. In Walker's The Coldest Case, applying the facial reconstruction tools used on ancient skulls to the skull of a long-dead murder victim leads Bruno, chief of police in fictional town in the Dordogne, to the activities of a Cold War-era Communist organization. With A Peculiar Combination, Louisiana librarian Weaver detours from her beloved Amory Ames books to launch a new series starring Electra "Ellie" McDonnell, who cracks safes with locksmith uncle Mick to make ends meet in World War II England and agrees to help the government when she's caught (40,000-copy first printing).

     Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     February 15, 2021
     It might be a #MeToo backlash when a fearless feminist's rhetoric is used to frame her for the murders of several misogynists. Though she's always seen herself as a feminist firebrand, particularly compared to her neighbors in Zinnia, Mississippi, Sarah Booth Delaney has nothing on her newest client, Alala Diakos. Dr. Diakos is a Greek professor who's come to town to work on her latest, a nonfiction book on women's struggle for equality, and she's been practicing what she preaches all over Zinnia. Her thoughts on the patriarchy, particularly on what should happen to male abusers, seem uncomfortably linked to a series of mysterious deaths of men from Alala's academic circles, though she swears she's being framed. Alala hires the Delaney Detective Agency after the latest fatality, well-known local wife beater Curtis Miller, who Alala insists wasn't the victim of her extermination-focused justice. Another obvious suspect in Curtis' death, his beleaguered wife, Tansy, seems easy to rule out because of the many times she let Curtis drive her home from the emergency room after he put her there; in fact, she was in the ER for a sprained wrist when Curtis was shot. But if Alala isn't behind Curtis' death, who is? Sarah Booth and her partner, Tinkie Richmond, dig in, though their usual meddling is hampered as Tinkie approaches what feels like her one-millionth trimester. Sarah Booth's boyfriend, Sheriff Coleman Peters, provides some assistance, though there's no time for much romance between the two. As for Jitty, the resident haint of Sarah Booth's ancestral home, her cryptic "help" is only a sign that Jitty wants to steal the spotlight. Tackling timely matters puts a serious spin on a usually lighter series.

     COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      April 26, 2021
      The shooting murder of Curtis Miller, “a well-known domestic abuser,” kick-starts Haines’s middling 23rd Sarah Booth Delaney mystery (2020’s A Garland of Bones). The prime suspect, Greek literature professor Alala Diakos, who has come to Zinnia, Miss., to write a book on the battle for women’s rights in America, hires Sarah Booth to prove her innocence. When Sarah Booth asks her PI partner, Tinkie Richmond, about Dr. Diakos’s philosophy, Tinkie answers: “Men who abuse women should be exterminated with the utmost efficiency. Hopefully, by a mob of angry women.” That the professor was on the suspect list for two similar murders doesn’t discourage Sarah Booth, and she and Tinkie set out to discover who else might have wanted Miller dead. Sarah Booth’s intuition tells her that the three murders are connected, but what could Miller, a nonacademic, have in common with the other victims, an English professor at Ole Miss and a sociologist at Vanderbilt? The unfocused, digressive plot builds to a hurried resolution that leaves readers with unanswered questions. Cozy fans attuned to the #MeToo movement may want to check this one out. Agent: Marian Young, Young Agency.

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      May 1, 2021
      During the dedication of a new park in the Mississippi Delta town of Zinnia, Dr. Alala Diakos, visiting professor of Greek literature at Ole Miss, begins an impromptu lecture on feminism. She is heckled by a local man, a known wife abuser, and they come to blows. Hours later he is found dead, shot in the same way as two other professors accused of abuse. With all evidence pointing to her, Diakos hires Sarah Booth Delaney and Tinkie Bellcase Richmond, co-owners of a PI firm, to prove that she's being framed. As they investigate, Sarah Booth and Tinkie learn that the victim was a member of a secret misogynist organization committed to limiting women's rights. Further investigations lead to the Ole Miss campus and a local women's shelter. (The theme of women's rights through history is highlighted by Jitty, the Delaney family haint, a southern variety of ghost, who appears disguised as a succession of independent female outlaws. Despite the serious underpinnings of the investigation, the PI duo bring levity through Tinkie's concerns with her late-stage pregnancy and their dogs' antics while riding along from place to place.

      COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      April 1, 2021
      

      PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her best friend and business partner, Tinkie Richmond, attend the grand opening for a park in Zinnia, MS, where the speaker, Dr. Alala Diakos, opines that men who abuse women "should be exterminated." The event turns violent when domestic abuser Curtis Miller is attacked by a mob of women. He's later shot to death, and Alala is questioned. She hires Sarah Booth and Tinkie because this is the third time a man Alala knows was shot and killed. They discover a local group of men affiliated with a national campaign to limit women's economic, educational, and medical choices. Sarah Booth knows she can't keep Tinkie from the case, but she wants to limit her exposure to possible violence: Tinkie is eight-and-a-half months pregnant, and Sarah Booth is more worried for her safety than Alala's. VERDICT Haines follows A Garland of Bones with an issue-oriented mystery that delves into the stories of women who fought for their independence, alongside accounts of domestic abuse. Despite the heavy overtones, there's room for humor as dogs and cats assist with the investigation. Fans of the series will enjoy the depth of the story, along with the characters' personal development.--Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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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. With her fervent feminist ideals and revolutionary leanings, she quickly earns the admiration of many—and the ire of others. During a speech in the park, in which Alala tries to organize the women of Zinnia to demand equal pay, the crowd gets unruly, with men heckling the professor. And when PI Sarah Booth Delaney finds a sniper rifle and scope in the bushes, she begins to worry that there are more than fighting words at stake.
Sarah Booth calls her boyfriend, Sheriff Coleman Peters, who offers the protection of the Zinnia police department, but Alala rejects him, saying...

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