Created by Carolyn Haines
Private eye SARAH BOOTH DELANEY plies her trade in Zinnia, Mississippi in a crazy popular series of southern cozies that offers a little something for everyone: adorable pets, old mansions, woo-woo, madcap adventures, recipes and plenty of zany friends and family, including (but not limited to) her red tick hound Sweetie Pie, a handsome Sheriff boyfriend and a talkative ghost, Jitty, who haunts Dahlia House, Sarah’s family’s antebellum estate.
And just to prove her cozy bonafides, many of Haines’ titles boast horrendously painful puns, all based on the word “bones.”
Hey! “Bone-a-fides”! I’m sure that will come up eventually.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Oh, wait. She did a cookbook! Bone-a-Fied Delicious: The Official Official Cookbook of the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series (2014).
NOVELS
- Them Bones (1999) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Buried Bones (2000) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Splintered Bones (2002) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Crossed Bones (2003) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Hallowed Bones (2005) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Bones to Pick (2007) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Ham Bones (2007) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Wishbones (2009) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Greedy Bones (2009) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Bone Appétit (2011) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Bones of a Feather (2011) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Bonefire of the Vanities (2013) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Smarty Bones (2014) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Booty Bones (2015) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Bone to Be Wild) (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Rock-a-Bye Bones (2016) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
- Charmed Bones (2017) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- Sticks and Bones (2017) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- A Gift of Bones (2018) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
SHORT STORIES & NOVELETTES
- “Shorty Bones (April 2014, digital) | Kindle it!
- “Jingle Bones” (October 2015, digital) | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- “Bones on the Bayou” (March 2016, digital) | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- “Guru Bones” (March 2017, digital) | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
- “Bones and Arrows” (May 2017, digital) | Buy the audio
ALSO OF INTEREST
- Bone-a-Fied Delicious (2014) | Buy this book
On the author’s web site, it’s subtitled “The Official Official Cookbook of the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series,” while on Amazon it’s billed as “Delicious Recipes from Zinnia’s Finest Chefs.” Either way, it was a ring-bound, limited-edition collection of over 700 recipes, compiled by fans of Carolyn Haines, and featuring illustrations and running commentary by the characters from the series, with all proceeds going to the Good Fortune Farm Refuge, a non-profit which rescues and rehomes animals.
Respectfully submitted by Nathalie Bumpeau, with extra snarkiness by Kevin Burton Smith.
