Title: Ham Bones
Author: Carolyn Haines
published year: 2007
Patti's Read:
This
book is one of a series of ‘cozy” mysteries with a heroine named Sarah Booth
Delaney, who lives on an old Mississippi plantation in a big old inherited home
with Jitty, a black ghost who has hung around for 200 hundred years, talks to
Sarah, varies her looks, and can be seen by no one else.
Sarah now has the old plantation farmed and is part of a
private investigator business with her best friend, Tinkie. Sarah has returned from New York where she
tried to enter the world of stage acting but with little success.
In this episode of Sarah’s adventures, a touring
production of the play, “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, is opening in her home town
with a mean star named Renata Trovaioli, who starred in a New York play where
Sarah was her understudy. Also arriving
in town is Graf an actor who Sarah had a failed romance with when she was in
New York.
Renata turns up dead of poisoning. Sarah is the number one suspect. She goes through a lot of grief before the
surprise ending establishes that Renata committed suicide because of suffering
from a horrible disease that was progressive and set up Sarah to take a fall of
murder.
I enjoyed the
story and am reading more of this
series..
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