The Official Mississippi Delta Mystery Bookshelf

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Marlena Bramlett, a young mother married to the wealthiest man in the area, is raped and beaten beyond recognition. Marlena had been entertaining her lover at a picnic in the woods, and her six-year-old daughter is missing after the attack. Jade Dupree, Marlena's unacknowledged half-sister (her mother is society dame Lucille Longier and her father an unknown black man) is determined to find her niece with the help of white deputy sheriff Frank Kimble.  Click the cover for more...

Buy Penumbra  today!

 

 

 

 

Dahlia House is haunted. No big revelation for those who know me and my family, but on this cold November morning as I sit and watch the sun gild the harvested cotton fields with a false show of silver I am acutely aware of the specters of the past. I suppose in one way or another, we are all haunted, though some of us more than others.  Click the cover for more...

Buy Bones To Pick today!

 

 

 

 

 

This lyrical and suspenseful novel, set in the Deep South, has as its center Bekkah Rich, crossing the border between the enchanted world of adolescence and the grown-up world of enticement, danger, and evil. The story it tells, the voice that tells it, and the spell it casts are utterly original- and indelibly its own. Click the cover for more...

"RATHER LIKE A FELLINI FILM..." -Eugene Walter, Lippincott Prize  novelist

Order Touched today!

 

 

 

 

 

The leaves of the calendar may be shedding faster than the sycamores on her family's decaying Mississippi plantation, but thirty-something Sarah Booth Delaney isn't ready to sing the blues. Not when she's got a thriving detective agency and the outspoken, outrageously attired ghost of her great-great grandmother's nanny to keep her on her toes. But the matchmaking phantom may have the last word on motherhood when Sarah Booth takes on the controversial case of an accused baby killer. Click the cover for more...

Buy Hallowed Bones today!  

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                 

 

 

 

                                               

What Peggy Morgan could not know in 1964, as she said her vows before a justice of the peace, was that she had taken the first steps on a path that parallelled her mother's in every way- poverty, neglect, and abuse. But even more cruel, Peggy also would be exposed to the worst aspects of racial violence in a South embroiled in the Civil Rights Movement. Click the cover for more...

 

Buy My Mother's Witness today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Meet Sarah Booth Delaney... an unconventional southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi... if it doesn't make her the deadest. Click the cover for more...

"A WRITER OF EXCEPTIONAL TALENT." -The Milwaukee Journal    

 Order Them Bones today!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments- but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's southern homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah- from spinsterhood. Click the cover for more...

"WONDERFUL!" -Nancy Pickard, author of The Whole Truth

Order Buried Bones today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eulalee McBride has confessed to murdering her husband... and she wants Sarah to dig up the dirt on the violent scalawag to prove he got what he deserved. Sarah Booth suspects that her friend is lying through her pearly whites...but why? Click the cover for more...

"WICKEDLY FUNNY. DEVILISHLY CLEVER." -Carolyn Hart, author of April Fool Dead

Order Splintered Bones today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Sarah Booth, navigating between a rich, available businessman, a married lawman with a waffling heart, and the sexy bluesman who is angling to become much more than her client, this case is taking dangerous twists.  Click the cover for more...

"SOUTHERN GOTHIC ALIVE WITH VIBRANT ENERGY, LAUGHS, AND A ZANY TWIST." -The Poisoned Pen

Order Crossed Bones today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Haines once again plumbs the deep undercurrents of life in a small Southern town, forcing darkly held secrets and hidden desires to burst to the surface in this suspenseful tale of passion and prophecy. Click the cover for more...

"UTTERLY ORIGINAL AND COMPLETELY UNFORGETTABLE..." -Mark Childress, author of Crazy in Alabama

Order Summer of the Redeemers today!