I'm not a huge fan of cozy mysteries, but I did have a good time reading this one! It was light and fun and kept me interested the whole time. I'd definitely try more by this author.

Sarah Booth Delaney is my hero! I love her exploits! It's like if you mixed Stephanie Plum with Steel Magnolias. Such a great read and recommendation for my book club. I will be purchasing a copy for the library as well.

This cozy mystery takes place on a woman's weekend get away to a B and B set in a recreation of the Holy Land at Easter.

Enjoyed the places the characters go and of course they come across a dead body.

This is the first book I’ve read in the series and probably affected my rating. This is a light fun read. And while the mystery and story line aren’t that original, the characters are well developed and help pull you into the story. I’m not invested enough with this one book that I will go back and read the first 20 books. However, there are enough positive reviews that I would encourage you to consider starting with the first book to see if this is a series you would enjoy.

Thank you to NetGalley and Minotaur Books for my advanced review copy. All opinions and thoughts are my own.

Sarah Booth Delaney is my favorite southern sleuth and I loved how this book celebrated her bestie Tinky getting ready to be a mommy. The mystery was very interesting and I got lost in the richness of the story and characters. This is a great book and series. A must read for sure

The Sarah booth Delaney series of mysteries never lets you down always a good story with real character development can't wait for the next one.

ThevDevil Bones by Carolyn Haines

Sarah Booth and her friend are traveling to Mississippi to celebrate Easter, but what they find instead is a dead body.

This is a warm cozy mystery. The 21st book in this series. A dead body is found. We are Taken down many paths until we find the killer.. I recommend this book.

Thanks to Net Galley for sending me an advanced copy for my review.

I love the Sarah Booth Delaney series and have ever since I read the first book Them Bones over 20 years ago because I know when I pick up one of Haines' cozy mysteries, I'll be in for a page-turning, suspenseful read.

In this 21st installment of the series, the mystery doesn't take place in Zinnia but in Lucedale, Mississippi when Sarah, Tinkie, and CeCe decide that a girl’s weekend at a luxury B & B is in order after all the things they went through in the last book and to celebrate that Tinkie is finally, blessedly pregnant! It's Easter weekend, and the gal pals are also there to visit The Garden of Bones, a miniature replica of the Holy Land. Of course, trouble always seems to follow Sarah Booth and one murder after another begins to happen. They begin to investigate the crimes but all clues seem to lead to their client.

I did enjoy this latest book by Haines, but I have to admit that it isn't my favorite in the series. It was predictable who the killer was right off the bat, and I really missed having Sarah Booth's dog Pluto part of the story! He's always there to help her, so it was a major disappointment for this dog lover. And Coleman was just a voice on the phone. The dynamic was just wrong for me. Still, it was well-written and quintessential Haines, and the characters of Sarah Booth, Tinkie, Cece, Jitty were, as always, strong, amazing women who I would love to know in real life. I look forward to reading Haines' next book in the series, A Garland of Bones just in time for Christmas!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martins Press for the review copy.

The Devil's Bones is tgec21st installment in this series. I have read most of the book by Carolyn Haines and I am never disappointed. This book is another fun cozy mystery that will keep you turning the pages. I can't wait for the next book.

The Devil’s Bones: A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery by Carolyn Haines
Review by Sandra Murphy

Sarah Booth Delaney and her two best friends, Tinkie and Cece, have treated themselves to a spa weekend. A stay at a B&B, facials, massages, wonderful food, what could be a more relaxing weekend! Until the first body turns up of course. They’re in Lucedale, Mississippi, for Easter weekend, to celebrate Tinkie’s long-awaited pregnancy and to visit the miniaturized Holy Land display after sunrise services.

Rather than wait for an official tour of the gardens after the service, the trio decides to walk the route by themselves. That puts them in the right place at the right time to find the body of Perry Slay, sleaze-bag lawyer, known for tricking people out of their valuables and clogging the courts with nuisance lawsuits. No one will mourn his loss. In fact, potential suspects are happy to explain how much they hated him.

Eric is the town’s pharmacist, and he has a great reason to want Perry to suffer. Perry took advantage of Eric’s dying father. When Eric finds out Sarah Booth and Tinkie are private detectives, he hires them to prove he’s innocent. With too many suspects, they’ve got their work cut out for them. When a second body turns up, also implicating Eric, it’s starting to look like he’s been framed.

In the meantime, Cece meets a journalist who wants to hire her to be his partner. They spend their days following local stories and making plans. Tinkie and Sarah Booth? Well, they get shot at twice, find more motives, and less clarity.

This is book twenty-one in the popular series. Sarah Booth’s very own ghost, Jitty, is along for their weekend getaway, cryptic as ever. It seems as though the women are getting their heart’s desire—Tinkie a baby, Cece a new work challenge, and Sarah Booth, Coleman, the love of her life. If only things were so easy. Each will have to face daunting challenges along the way. With each book, they find strength they didn’t know they had. This one seems to be a bit edgier than usual which is a change for the better. The mystery has two subplots that keep the pace moving from beginning to end.

Look for book twenty-two, A Garland of Bones, coming this October, available for pre-order now.

Carolyn Haines' Sarah Booth series has many loyal readers who keep coming back for more of the life and times of our intrepid PI and her friends, including ghost Jitty, who manifests to help with investigations as she sees fit.

This book, #21 in the series, finds Sarah and her friends on vacation. A vacation that quickly turns into an investigation when they are hired to clear their client of suspicion when his father is murdered and he is the chief suspect. The usual troubles follow as more deaths point the finger at their client.

Although #21, this series is written so each book can be read as stand alone. The characters have grown and developed as the series progresses, you will enjoy their antics should you pick up any of the prior titles. These cozies are entertaining as well as challenging, read one or read them all, you will love them!!!

The Devil's Bones is the twenty first in Carolyn Haines' popular cozy mystery series starring Sarah Booth Delaney and her close friends - BFF Tinkie (her PI partner), journalist Cece - and ancestral ghost Jitty.

This episode takes Sarah Booth, a pregnant Tinkie and Cece on an Easter weekend mini-vacation to the Garden of Bones in Lucedale, Mississippi.

This is another over the top escapade in the series.

Carol Haines has Sarah Booth Delaney leave town to tour the Garden of Bones in her latest title The Devil's Bones. The Garden is a miniature Holy Land where Sarah finds a body at the Mount of Olives. Perry Slay, the murder victim is a shyster lawyer who sues everyone and the suspect, Eric, accused him of stealing property from Eric's father. Lots of suspects. Jitty, the ghost who haunts Sarah's home gets up to her regular mysterious tricks in giving clues to Sarah. Enjoy this cozy.

The Devils Bones is the 21st installment in the “A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery” series. I haven't read the whole series (Maybe 4) but boy I wish I had as I love Sarah Booth! I always walk away having learned something when I read one of Carolyn’s books. With all this said you can easily read this book as a stand-alone, but I recommend reading in order.

Sarah Booth is a strong and intelligent protagonist and all the characters are fully developed with some quirky attributes. I loved how important Sarah Booth's friends are to her Tinkie, CeCe, and Coleman. The inclusion of her haint (Dahlia House's ghost Jetty) who helps by giving clue from the beyond to help solve the mystery. I really enjoyed learning about the miniature Holy Land in Lucedale, Missisippi .

There were plenty of twists and turns and lots of suspects to choose from this go around and the main suspect did not help himself what so ever. I found this book to be a real page-turner, suspenseful, read that had me second guessing up till the end. I did figure out who the killer was but I was wrong about the why until close to the end.

I'll be reading more of this author, I highly recommend this book and series.

I requested and received an Advanced Reader Copy from Minotaur Books and NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Another fun book in the Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series. This is actually book 21 in the series *boggles*, and I'm still enjoying this series a much now as I did at the beginning. There's always great characters and a mystery that has me guessing until the end.
Keep on writing them Ms. Haines, and I'll keep reading them.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher. My thoughts and opinions are my own and without bias or favor.

Princess Fuzzypants here: Sarah Delaney’s girls weekend of fun and pampering, turns out to be anything but. She and her detective partner Tinkie are hired by a local playboy/pharmacist when he accused of murdering a reprehensible shyster lawyer on Easter Sunday. There were a lot of people who wished the victim ill but the evidence continues to point towards their client. Then another body is discovered and this too seems to point towards him. Either he is guilty or someone is doing a bang up job of framing.

He is not helping his cause any by lying and disappearing only to reappear without an alibi. The more Sarah and Tinkie dig up the guiltier he looks. Then their own lives are threatened. Are they getting too close to the truth about the murders or is there something more nefarious and personal going on? Did the attempt come from a foe of long standing or someone more recent?

It was an enjoyable read but I must admit the client truly was dense to the point of being a nominee for the Darwin Award not because he put himself in harm’s way but in the sheer stupidity of not taking his situation seriously. While it was a complex story with lots of twists and turns, many of which were unexpected. I did twig almost immediately to the villain. But I must admit the final rescue of Delaney from his clutches was very unusual and fun.

Four purrs and one paw up.

As an avid reader of Sarah’s adventures, I was again taken into her world. Sarah and Tinkie are at the center of this toxic mystery. Cece goes missing, Sarah and Tinnkie are attacked. Solving this puts all of them in danger. Great story and can’t wait for the next Sarah adventure.

This was a riveting read; storytelling at its best. Sarah Booth, Tinkie and Cece are enjoying a girls weekend trip...until they find the first body. An amazingly twisty plot, well developed characters and brilliant writing move the story along at a nice pace. I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to future installments. I received this book free and chose to make a voluntary, unbiased review.

The Devil's Bones by Carolyn Haines has it all: a transgender newspaper reporter, a TV journalist, a pregnant private investigator, a horseback-riding sheriff, and a model of the Holy Land. It these things don't set up a murder, what does? This book has no shortage of interesting characters, that's for sure. It has a plot, which takes a while to unfold but does so rapidly and dramatically when the time comes. It has tons of back-story, probably covered in earlier novels, but explained in this one, which should intrigue the reader enough to go back and read earlier books.

Someone is murdering seemingly unrelated people and planting their bodies at the site of a miniature replica of the Holy Land. The murders don't seem related to the site, but maybe they are. There is no shortage of likely suspects and a small-town sheriff who is good at her job, but extremely short-handed as the murders pile up. Haines portrayal of her main characters is thorough and accurate and is the driving force behind solving the crime, with a client who never has an alibi when crimes are committed, but whom everyone agrees in unlikely to be the murderer. It come with a compelling motive and thought-provoking solution to a number of crimes. It was a good read. I recommend it.

I was invited to read a free ARC of The Devil's Bones by Netgalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. All opinions and interpretations contained herein are solely my own. #netgalley #thedevilsbones

This is the 21st book in the Sarah Booth Delaney series. Sarah Booth , Tinkie, and CeCe are spending a girls weekend at a B and B. in Lucedale. Tinkie insists on attending a Sunrise Easter Service in the gardens. While they are there, they discover a dead body. After an arrest is made, the accused, Eric Ward, hires the girls to prove his innocence.
One of my favorite things about the Sarah Booth books is the appearances of Jitty, the ghost that haunts Dahlia House. I always look forward to seeing who she will show up as. The characters are wonderful. I love the friendship between Sarah Booth, Tinkie, and CeCe. I liked how the mystery came together. There was also a side mystery that tied into previous books that wasn't wrapped up but hoping it will be in the next book. I did have a hard time getting into the book, but I think that was due to the formatting on my ARC as once I had the physical book I found it easier to read. I received this book from net galley in exchange for an honest review.