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Splintered Bones
by Carolyn Haines
ISBN: 0385335903
ISBN-13: 9780385335904
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
When Eulalee McBride is accused of murdering her no-good husband, her best friend, Mississippi sleuth Sarah Delaney, tries to clear her name.
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Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 2002
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 2 pounds
Pages: 308
Publisher's Notes
CAROLYN HAINES has delighted readers with her acclaimed Mississippi Delta mysteries, which introduced a truly unique heroine: Sarah Booth Delaney, an unconventional southern belle who solves uncommon murders. Now the author of Them Bones and Buried Bones makes her exciting hardcover debut with Splintered Bones, a novel that plunges her feisty Delta detective into a world of old money, new secrets, cheating hearts, and cold-blooded murder....
Splintered Bones
She may be a born-and-bred Mississippi belle, but it’s been a long time since Sarah Booth Delaney was a pampered daddy’s girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has more important things on her mind–like trying to hang on to her family’s plantation...and coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother’s nanny, a bossy busybody of a ghost who is set on marrying her off to the first eligible suitor who comes calling.
But when a friend is in trouble, Sarah doesn’t hesitate to get involved. Eulalee McBride has confessed to killing her husband, Kemper, a gambling scalawag with a violent streak a mile wide. She wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on her dead spouse to prove he was a mean old bastard...and that’s why she bludgeoned him to death right before he was trampled by a 1,400-pound horse. But Sarah Booth knows her old friend is lying through her pearly whites–probably to protect her teenage daughter Kip, an angry kid who may have had her own reasons for wanting Kemper dead.
There’s certainly no lack of suspects–or studs–in Zinnia, Mississippi, including Bud Lynch, a trainer with a nasty secret, who arouses killer lust in the town’s women–all married and all ready to scratch each other’s eyes out for a roll in the hay with the Texas cowboy. Now, with the help of handsome Sheriff Coleman Peters, Sarah begins to put together the splintered pieces of the case. But as the season’s hunt ball draws near, she catches the unmistakable scent of blood...as a cunning killer gets ready to strike again. And this time it could send one late-blooming southern sleuth into an early grave.
In Sarah Booth Delaney, CAROLYN HAINES gives us an emancipated daughter of the New South: a steel magnolia with brains, grit, and heart who gives as good as she gets. And in Splintered Bones, she offers plenty of wickedly brilliant humor and good old-fashioned suspense.
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Delacorte Press. Hardcover. 0385335903 This is a hardback book in very good to like new condition with the Dust cover also in same shape. "Spend Less, Read More, Save a Tree :)" We Really Do Appreciate Your Business!! Thanks a Bunch . Fine. ( more information) Offered by Willy and Reds Used Books and More (United States)
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Delacorte Press. Hardcover. 0385335903 A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. 2002 Delacorte Press Hard Cover . Very Good. 2002. ( more information) Offered by Seashellbooks.com, Inc. (United States)
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Delacorte Press, 2002 Advanced Reading Copy.. Trade paperback. Good. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some general shelfwear. Clean supple pages/tight/secure. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Audience: General/trade.. ( more information) Offered by BuddyLeeBooks (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Press. VG+/VG+. 2002. First Edition / First Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0385335903 Light edgewear, nice clean copy. I-3. . ( more information) Offered by Paradise Found Books (United States)
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Splintered Bones; A Mystery From the Mississippi Delta
Haines, Carolyn
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Delacorte Pr, 2002 Very Good/Very Good, Hardback/Dust Jacket, 308 pages,. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by The Book House - St. Louis (United States)
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HAINES, CAROLYN
Delacorte Press, New York: 2002. Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition. A novel that plunges her feisty Delta detective into a world of old money, new secrets, cheating hearts, and cold-blooded murder. ISBN: 0385335903. ( more information) Offered by Ad Infinitum Books (United States)
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New York: Delacorte, 2002. Hardcover. As New/As New. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mississippi Delta/Sarah Booth Delaney. SIGNED by Carolyn Haines. Very fine book in very fine dj. ( more information) Offered by Thomas Books (United States)
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New York: Delacorte Press, 2002. BP6 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has light wrinkling on some edges and corners and light shelf wear otherwise fine. Book has a few lightly dog-eared pages and light dent on the top otherwise fine. Signed by the author on the title page. A mystery from the Mississippi Delta. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Bookmarc's (United States)
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Delacorte Press. Hardcover. 0385335903 New with very slight shelf wear from time on shelf (like you'd see at a major chain). We ship daily, provide personalized customer service and want you to have a great experience purchasing from us. Thank you for your consideration. . New. ( more information) Offered by BennettBooksLtd (United States)
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