Buried Bones
by Carolyn Haines
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Author: Carolyn HainesEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 2000-10-31
ISBN: 0553581724
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Less Sarah Booth More Lawrence Ambrose
Summary: 4 Stars
Lawrence Ambrose is a writer and supporter of the arts who, on the eve of having his "tell all" published, pledges it will divulge the innermost secrets of various people he knows/has known. Of course, the morning after making this dinner party announcement, he if found murdered...
The storyline is an interesting one and the book possesses literary merit; however, I would have liked more on Mr. Ambrose's character (and his life) and a little less on Sarah Booth's daily thoughts and meanderings--I mean how fascinated can one character be with the color of people's eyes (and they're all blue)? How many times and ways can the reader be told that S.B. is a fallen-from-grace, once wealthy daddy's girl/deb who is now having to make her own way? And that ubiquitous Jitty "character", who does nothing to advance the storyline, definitely needs a rest. She exists solely, I guess, to serve as comic relief and foil to Saran Booth.
The other townspeople in this small Mississippi enclave are, for the most part, fairly interesting and we get to know several of them pretty well. This is the second book in the series I have read and despite my mumblings and grumblings above, I will read another. Ms. Haines is a gifted writer--of that there is no doubt. However, it is difficult not to get the impression she--how can I put this--"dumbs down" her talent to appeal to a wider based audience.
Summary of Buried Bones
Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments--but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah--from spinsterhood. Then comes the perfect social occasion: Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party...Buried Bones
Ambrose, once a famous man of southern letters, is planning a comeback: a delicious tell-all with a bitchy ex-model as his "biographer." As he taunts his dinner guests with the news that his book will blow the lid off Zinnia's darkest secrets, it becomes plain that each and every guest has a secret--and wants Ambrose to keep it. When the morning-after mess includes a bloody corpse and the manuscript of the biography disappears, Sarah Booth goes digging for answers. But many who hold them are six feet under--or soon will be--and if she doesn't tread carefully, she could join them any day now...
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