Enchanted Bones by Carolyn Haines

Enchanted Bones

by Carolyn Haines

Series: Sarah Booth Delaney #21.5
Series Rating:
Published by Minotaur Books on June 16, 2020
Genres: Private Investigator Paranormal Southern Mystery
Pages: 59
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Also in this series: Sticks and Bones, Charmed Bones, Clacking Bones, A Gift of Bones , Game of Bones, The Devil's Bones, A Garland of Bones, Independent Bones, Lady of Bones, Bones of Holly, Tell-Tale Bones, Lights, Camera, Bones, Blue Christmas Bones

In Enchanted Bones, PI Sarah Booth Delaney comes to the rescue in a short mystery set in Zinnia, Mississippi, that will delight fans and new readers alike.
A lost little girl is just about the last thing Private Investigator Sarah Booth Delaney expects to see while horseback riding one evening in the woods, and her concern deepens when she reads the note pinned to the girl's outfit: it says she is cursed, and has consequently been abandoned.
Filled with concern for the child, Sarah Booth gets to work tracing her origins. The quest takes her and her partner, Tinkie, to a small nomadic community on the Mississippi River, where the answers to their questions lie. Sarah Booth must tread carefully, however, for danger awaits her there as well.

Enchanted Bones by Carolyn Haines is an excellent short story that shows compassion, superstitions, and unwavering family ties.

Will Sarah Booth find the little girl’s mother?

When Sarah Booth finds a toddler in the woods all alone with a note that she is cursed, Sarah Booth decides she is going to find the girl’s family. It’s a quick little story that tells the tale of a child that is different, and how some people react to her is scary while others understand how special she is.

I truly liked the ghost town, Bokchito, and the story of Sally Weathers. Ms. Haines surprises and entertains her audience with the brilliant combination of mystery, romance, and the supernatural.

Jitty was also present in a few scenes, and these are the mothers that Jitty chose to embark parental knowledge to Sarah Booth.

Five Stars

As always, I am thoroughly entertained by Sarah Booth and her friends. Even though Tinkie and Cece weren’t in this story, it still has other citizens of Sunflower County. My rating for Enchanted Bones by Carolyn Haines is five stars, and I can’t wait for the next book, A Garland of Bones by Carolyn Haines.

Other Books in the Series

Released July 27th

The Devil’s Bones by Carolyn Haines

As Sarah Booth sees it, Easter weekend is a time to celebrate life in all its many forms. So when the newly-pregnant Tinkie invites her and Cece on a girls’ trip to Lucedale, Mississippi to celebrate that spring has officially sprung, Sarah Booth can’t resist. Plans include facials, food, and a trip to the incredible Garden of Bones—a miniature Holy Land with recreations of all parts of the Middle East—for their Sunrise Easter Services led by biblical scholar, gardener, and creator of the Gardens Daniel Reynolds.

Unfortunately for Sarah Booth and the gang, someone doesn’t seem to appreciate this season of new life. Easter morning has just dawned when the trio find themselves at the Mount of Olives—with a dead body at their feet.

Reynolds identifies the dead man as local lawyer Perry Slay, who was well known for his sly and underhanded dealings. Perry had rubbed plenty of people the wrong way, and now it looks like someone has rubbed him out…

Because being a PI apparently means never being on vacation, Sarah Booth and her friends must now find a way to resurrect the truth from a list of suspects as long as the River Jordan, reveal the devil in disguise, and—if they’re lucky—find a moment to enjoy a few chocolate bunnies before more bodies pile up like pillars of salt.

Releasing on October 13th

A Garland of Bones by Carolyn Haines

Sarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties. Each little Delta town has a special Christmas activity, and Sarah Booth’s bff and detective partner, Tinkie, has arranged to rent a limo for the gang and drive to Columbus, MS, to stay in a B&B. Visions of Christmas shopping, parade floats, and romantic rendezvous are already dancing in their heads.

But Christmas cheer soon turns to Christmas fear when, at one event after another, people keep getting hurt. Christmas karaoke gets ugly when one singer’s microphone gives her an electric shock. A party during a historic home tour ends with a fall down the stairs for one of Columbus’s most disreputable “players.” And when the woman who hires Sarah Booth to find the villain behind the so-called accidents is nearly killed with an arrow during a holiday mumming, Sarah Booth knows something more sinister is at work.

The Christmas bells are ringing hauntingly in Columbus this year, and Sarah Booth and Tinkie—with a little help from hunky Sheriff Coleman Peters, of course—are determined to catch the wrong-doers and ensure they receive nothing but coal in their stockings.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of  Enchanted Bones by Carolyn Haines.

Until the next time,

 

This Guest Review is for Baroness’ Book Trove. 

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