Clacking Bones by Carolyn Haines

Item: Clacking Bones
Rating: 5
Author: BaronessMom

Posted October 5, 2018 by BaronessMom in #HalloweenWithTheBaroness, Mystery, Paranormal, Review, Series, Short Stories / 0 Comments

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the Author. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Clacking Bones

by Carolyn Haines

Series: Sarah Booth Delaney #16.75
Series Rating:

Published by KaliOka Press on September 9, 2018
Genres: Private Investigator Paranormal Southern Holiday Mystery
Pages: 64
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: Sticks and Bones, Charmed Bones, A Gift of Bones , Game of Bones, The Devil's Bones, Enchanted Bones, A Garland of Bones, Independent Bones, Lady of Bones, Bones of Holly, Tell-Tale Bones, Lights, Camera, Bones, Blue Christmas Bones

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. He’s on a mission of revenge that will get him banished from the heavenly world, unless Sarah Booth can stop him.

On All Hallow’s Eve, when the veil between living and dead is thinnest, Sarah Booth travels to the old plantation to halt a showdown between Coker and the last living heir of the Cliburn family.

When Coker and Thom Cliburn face off on the dusty road that fronts the slave quarters of the old plantation, can Sarah Booth save Jitty’s man? Can she survive an encounter no living person should ever see?

Sarah Booth must help Jitty’s husband before he can’t get back to the Great Beyond.

Clacking Bones by Carolyn Haines is a spooky mystery. This short story doesn’t have a number in the series (that I am aware of). However, I believe it is sometime before Charmed Bones as Sarah Booth hasn’t chosen her beau.

What I like the most about this story is that we get to meet Coker, Jitty’s husband. We also get to learn a little history about him and Sarah Booth’s family. It is always nice to learn more of the backstory. The voodoo and thinning of the veil were a little freaky, but I love a good ghost story, and this is that.

At the end of this book is an excerpt for A Gift of Bones, which is available on October 16^th.

5 Stars for Clacking Bones by Carolyn Haines

My rating for Clacking Bones by Carolyn Haines is five stars. I enjoyed the mystery and the ghostly adventure. If you are a fan of the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery Series, this is a must-read.

Don’t forget to look for Karen’s interview with Carolyn Haines later in the month.

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About Carolyn Haines

Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books. She was the recipient of the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writing and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, as well as the “Best Amateur Sleuth” award by Romantic Times. Born and raised in Mississippi, she now lives in Alabama on a farm with more dogs, cats, and horses than she can possibly keep track of.