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Sarah Booth and Tinkie, along with baby Maylin, are in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for Christmas this year, as judges for the annual library tree decorating contest.
The other two judges are writers Sandra O'Day and Janet Malone. They're bestselling Mississippi authors, but bitter competitors. In fact, the feud between them is the stuff of legends. For years, they've brawled, their sales skyrocketing with each cat fight. Sandra's most recent true crime
book documents the 1920s rum-running era of Al Capone, who built a mansion in BSL and a distribution network for his liquor. Janet's book, scheduled to be published in January, is a fictional account of the same material—which only heightens their bitter rivalry.
Sarah Booth and Tinkie are shopping with little Maylin when they see Sandra and Janet outside a bookstore, fur flying, and when Sandra vanishes from her own gala later that night, suspicion turns to Janet. Janet accuses Sandra of attempting to manipulate the media by a fake
disappearance, but is it a stunt, or is something more sinister at play?
Sarah Booth and Tinkie will have to dive deep into the history of Bay St. Louis, and even Al Capone himself, to get to the bottom of this case. But the trail in fact leads them back to several prominent families still residing in the area. Families who may not want their secrets known ...
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781705038819
- File size: 318647 KB
- Duration: 11:03:50
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- English
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October 10, 2022
Haines’s Southern charm–drenched 25th mystery featuring Zinnia, Miss., PI Sarah Booth Delaney (after Lady of Bones) takes Sarah Booth and her business partner and best friend, Tinkie Richmond, to Bay St. Louis, Miss., to serve as judges at the local library’s annual Christmas tree decorating contest. Their entourage includes various family members and Jitty, a shape-shifting ghost who assumes the guise of famous movie stars of bygone eras. Their fellow judges are bestselling authors and fierce competitors Janet Malone and Sandra O’Day, whose epic and very public battles have captured the public’s attention. When Sandra and Sandra’s assistant go missing at a book signing, Janet becomes the prime suspect in her rival’s disappearance and hires the visiting private eyes to find Sandra and clear her name. Appealing characters and amusing digressions, such as Jitty’s stories of the stars she impersonates, compensate for a host of red herrings that serve to pad what in the end amounts to a shaggy dog tale. Fans will love catching up with their favorite detectives, who never forget that they are Southern ladies at heart. Agent: Marian Young, Young Agency.
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