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Title: Crossed Bones by CAROLYN HAINES ISBN: 0-440-24093-X Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Too much romance, too little mystery
Comment: And no wonder. Sarah Booth, our Mississippi broke-but-upper-class private investigator, has three romantic interests in this book: the sheriff, who is married; a wealthy businessman who is pursuing her; and a bad-boy blues musician who is charged with a vicious killing -- he's her client.
So -- although there was mystery at the beginning and mystery at the end, most of the middle seemed to be romance. If you like a lot of romance, you'll probably really like this book, but if you're more of a fan of mysteries, you may find all of Sarah Booth's dates and endless soul-searching about who is the man for her, etc. rather tedious after a while.
The plot involves racial tensions in the Mississippi delta town of Zinnia. A black man who owns a blues club has been viciously killed, and the white man who is the star musician in the club (they met in the penitentiary) is accused of killing him. The black man's wife hires Sarah Booth to prove that Scott the star musician didn't commit this murder. Scott has an unsavory past as a racist (not to mention the stretch behind bars) and he's belligerant and rude, but Sarah Booth comes to believe that he is indeed innocent and sets out to find the proof. The motive for this murder is the key to solving the crime, if she can only find out why he was killed.
Racial tensions are rising in Zinnia, and a lot of people are not happy that Sarah Booth has taken this case, so she is in some jeopardy herself. The dead man's son Emmanuel is convinced Scott killed his father and wants to see him convicted, but Emmanuel is a racist in his own right.
I really enjoyed Them Bones, so I picked up this book expecting to be equally delighted. I wasn't. As I said earlier, too much time spent on romances and too little on the mystery. This book could have been shortened by at least 50 pages and would have been improved. I think that the author needs to let the editor edit. I will try another of this author's mysteries to see if this book was the exception, or Them Bones was.
Rating: 2
Summary: What Happened....??
Comment: Maybe I've forgotten, but where did this love for Coleman come from? I know Sarah Booth had this "relationship" with Harold the Banker.....but I don't remember the sheriff ever being a factor. I thought this was by far the weeakest in the series. I have really liked all of the others, but this one didn't do it for me. I guess, as a Yankee, I really don't get the Daddy's Girl thing. Thank God I'm from the solid Northeast. I would not make a good Southern woman.....and I wouldn't want to be. But I'll still read the books.
Rating: 4
Summary: Sarah Booth Delaney does it again!
Comment: Sarah Booth is an engaging heroine. She is a PI, and a bit of a slut, and you have to love her and Tinkie, as well as Madame Tomeeka, the recurring psychic; Sweetie Pie, her dog; and Reveler, her horse. Jitty, the resident ghost, is a bit of a pain, and rather tiring, but all in all, this was a well-written cozy. You can just feel the delta heat burning!! I'll be back for more.
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Title: Splintered Bones by Carolyn Haines ISBN: 0440237211 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Buried Bones by Carolyn Haines ISBN: 0553581724 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Them Bones by Carolyn Haines ISBN: 0553581716 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Hallowed Bones by Carolyn Haines ISBN: 0385337787 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Ghost and Mrs. McClure (Prime Crime Mysteries) by Alice Kimberly ISBN: 0425194612 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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