Bones of a Feather

Haines, Carolyn

3.96

1,847 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1611731712 ISBN 13: 9781611731712

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2011

When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, accept Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don't have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think the insurance payout will be swifter with a reputable PI on the case. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout. There's evidence suggesting that fraud may be involved.

Just as Sarah and Tinkie start scratching the surface of the Levert family's sordid past and the blood money that all of their wealth was founded upon, Monica goes missing. The police suspect that the heiresses are playing more games -- and Eleanor is no help at all.

What no one knows is that Eleanor is the kidnappers' ace in the hole. If Eleanor says or does anything besides pass on the insurance money to the kidnappers, Monica will die.

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From the Back Cover:

Southern P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney tries to untangle the twisted schemes of twin sisters in the strangest case yet in Carolyn Haines's award-winning series.

A ruby necklace worth four million dollars appears to have been stolen, and its owners, Monica and Eleanor Levert―twin heirs of a wealthy Natchez clan―seem a bit too anxious to get their hands on the insurance money. It sounds a tad suspicious to Sarah Booth, who's been asked to file a report, but she can't be sure someone's committing fraud―or any other crime, for that matter―until one of the sisters is kidnapped...

"A LESSON IN LYING, MISSISSIPPI STYLE...with great dollops of charm." ―Kirkus Reviews

The police suspect the heiresses are playing some sort of game. But when Sarah Booth and her partner Tinkie begin to scratch the surface of the family's sordid past, they uncover more skeletons than any one closet can hold. Throw in a sneaky romantic gardener, a lurid tell-all biographer, and a body plunging off a plantation cliff, and the kidnapped twin plot thickens. But Sarah Booth really starts seeing double when Jitty the ghost shows up―as a pair of sisters―and two crimes become deadlier than one...

"REMINISCENT OF JANET EVANOVICH'S STEPHANIE PLUM NOVELS." ―Providence Journal-Bulletin

About the Author:

Carolyn Haines is the author of the Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries, including Greedy Bones and Bone Appetit. She is the recipient of both the Harper Lee Distinguished Writing Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence. Before writing fiction, she worked for several years as a journalist, and first visited the Delta, the setting for her mysteries, to do a newspaper story on Parchman State Prison. Born and raised in Mississippi, she now lives in Alabama on a farm with more dogs, cats, and horses than she can possibly keep track of.

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