Search - Ham Bones (Sarah Booth Delaney, Bk 7)

This is a fairly entertaining series. I have to admit it is becoming a bit stale as I read more of the series -- I'm getting tired of Jitty, the "resident haint", and I think it is time for Coleman to get on with it. Or let Sarah Booth find a new man.

The plot is intriguing, but unusually for me I guessed the villain. I'll probably keep reading the series because among other things it is nice to soak up all the Southern atmosphere. Not an earth shaker, but worth reading, would be my verdict.

Displaced from its New Orleans venue, a red-hot touring production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is opening right in the heart of Zinnia and featuring hunky star Graf Mileau. Sarah Booth, who had her own brief stint with Mileau, is less than thrilled, Graf is now limnked with his co-star Renata Troviola, a dyed in the wool diva who plans to ride Graf's coattails all the way to Hollywood. But Renata's trip to the top comes to a screeching halt on the play's second night when someone laces her lipstick with cyanide.

Renata was stirring up plenty of drama behind the scenes, making enemies galore; her long suffering makeup artist, an extremely harsh critic, an angry audience member, even boy toy Graf had a motive. But the most damning evidence points to Sarah.