In this charming cozy mystery, Sarah Booth Delaney must use her horse sense to prove her friendâs innocence and find her husbandâs real killerâunless the killer finds Sarah Booth first. . . .
âWickedly funny. Devilishly clever. Scintillatingly Southern. Carolyn Haines is an author to die for.ââCarolyn Hart, author of April Fool Dead
She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddyâs girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah Booth has her own set of problemsâlike coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmotherâs nanny, a busybody of a ghost whoâs set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesnât hesitate to get involved.
Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering her husband . . . and she wants Sarah Booth to dig up the dirt on the violent scalawag to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects that her friend is lying through her pearly whites . . . but why? Thereâs certainly no lack of suspects in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a horse trainer who arouses killer lust in the townâs women. As Sarah Booth begins to put together the pieces of the case, a killer is preparing to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.
In this charming cozy mystery, Sarah Booth Delaney must use her horse sense to prove her friendâs innocence and find her husbandâs real killerâunless the killer finds Sarah Booth first. . . .
âWickedly funny. Devilishly clever. Scintillatingly Southern. Carolyn Haines is an author to die for.ââCarolyn Hart, author of April Fool Dead
She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddyâs girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah Booth has her own set of problemsâlike coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmotherâs nanny, a busybody of a ghost whoâs set on marrying her off to the first suitor who comes calling. But when an old friend is in trouble, Sarah Booth doesnât hesitate to get involved.
Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering her husband . . . and she wants Sarah Booth to dig up the dirt on the violent scalawag to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects that her friend is lying through her pearly whites . . . but why? Thereâs certainly no lack of suspects in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a horse trainer who arouses killer lust in the townâs women. As Sarah Booth begins to put together the pieces of the case, a killer is preparing to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.