Smarty Bones

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she can not only identify the corpse she can also prove the woman''s scandalous role in the nation''s history. Olive takes it a step too far though when she starts connecting elite Zinnia families with the same scandal.. Dander up Zinnia''s society ladies know only one way to handle Olive: they call on the private investigative services of Sarah Booth Delaney. But Olive''s real agenda is clear as Mississippi mud and when Sarah Booth discovers a present-day dead body she knows there''s more than just family pride and Southern heritage at stake. If she can''t find the murderer and fast it might just be Sarah Booth''s life on the line next.. Carolyn Haines pulls out all the stops in Smarty Bones the next charming sassy Southern-fried Sarah Booth Delaney mystery.