Reviewed By: Dawn Dowdle
Splintered Bones
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Carolyn Haines
Class/Genre: Mystery Woman Main Character Cozy
Series: Southern Belle Mysteries
Dell, Paperback, 2/03, 356 pages, $6.50
Sarah Booth Delaney is asked to help her friend Lee McBride. Lee has confessed to murdering her husband Kemper. She doesn’t want Sarah to find a way to get her off, she just wants her to dig up dirt on her husband proving that he got what he deserved. She also wants Sarah to take care of her teenage daughter, Kip. What Sarah doesn’t know is Kip is a real handful!
Sarah feels that Lee is covering for someone, but she isn’t sure who – Kip, Avenger, Bud (the trainer), or someone else. She knows that if it turns out to be Kip, nothing she could do would make Lee admit it. So, Sarah begins investigating with the help of her friends Tinkie and Cece.
Plus, once Kip moves in, all sorts of things start happening. Sarah is unmarried and thirty. One night Kip overhears Sarah talking to herself (or so she thinks) about this. Then men start appearing at the door to escort Sarah to the ball. This is just the beginning of trouble.
What Kip doesn’t know is that Sarah was talking to her great-great-grandmother’s nanny’s busybody ghost Jitty. Jitty helps Sarah talk over the case throughout the book.
At the ball, the barn where Avenger, Kip’s horse, is burns down. Everyone saw Avenger, Kip and Bud in the fire. No one saw them come out. Sarah doesn’t know how she can face Lee with this terrible news.
While I had a little trouble with the ghost, I really enjoyed this book. The story moves at a good pace and the characters work well together. The many references to daddy’s girls gave credence to it. I love books set in the south, so Zinnia, Mississippi added a lot to this book.
I recommend this book. I hope to read more in this series myself.
Dawn Dowdle
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