by Carolyn Haines
This is the first book of the series of "Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries". I have read all of them and each one builds on the one before it. The characters evolve into complex beings that you get emotionally invested in. That being said, this is the weakest book of the entire series so far. From th...
A few years ago I devoured cosy mysteries: Donna Andrews, Jill Churchill, Margaret Maron, and on and on. So when Murder By Death mentioned a cosy series she was loving, I looked into it. I picked up "Them Bones", the first in the series, and dived in. Being incredibly busy at the moment, I was hopin...
Sarah Booth was raised in the South as a Daddy's Girl. She was to be a wife, a society player, a pretty arm piece for her husband. You don't always end out on the same path you start on, and Sarah Booth's life took a sharp left turn. Her parents died early, her finances cut short she is reduced to p...
I had trouble with this book as I didn't like the main character. Sarah Booth Delaney is boring and I just couldn't figure out what connection the ghost of her great-great-grandmothers nanny had to Sarah. She was forceful and domineering and unlikable. I liked the investigation into Hamilton Garre...
Not a strong 4, but still very cute.
The protagonist of this book talks to ghosts, animals and her womb. Her womb is quite a conversationalist.Neither the plot nor the characters worked for me.
I've seen this book on the bookstore shelves for years and always picked it up, but then put it back down again. The whole dog-napping bit seemed too stupid to me. I finally bought it and the dognapping - it's really such a very small part of the book - literally less than a chapter, and the rest of...
This was a great first book in the series. Sarah Booth is just wonderful and so funny. I was wanting to know what was going to happen next and how she was going to get herself out of the mess she was in.
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