GREEDY BONES By Carolyn Haines

This book is the latest contribution of Carolyn Haines to her series about Sarah Booth Delaney and the residents of Sunflower County. Sarah Booth is a southern belle who is an actress and also a private investigator.
This book begins with Sarah Booth rushing home to the Mississippi Delta upon hearing the sad news that Oscar Richmond , along with many other residents and friends are coming down with a critical illness. The illness starts with a fever but the most critically ill have lapsed into comas.
Oscar, the first to be infected, is the husband of Tinkie her partner in the Delaney Detective Agency.
The Center For Disease Control is on the case, having sent Peyton Fidellas and Bonnie Louise McRae. Although Bonnie seems just as intent on catching Sheriff Colman Peters as she is on investigating the illness.
along with the illnesses boll weevils are rapidly killing the county's cotton crop. As if one problem at a time wasn't enough. Sarah Booth soon discovers the people who are sick all have one thing in common, they have been on the Carlisle Plantation where a new type of fast growing cotton hybrid is being grown.Could this be what is causing the illness?
And there is also the mystery of the strange accidental deaths of Lana and Luther Carlisle back in the 1990's.
As Sarah Booth investigates, she finds that to save the future she must unravel the past.
I found this book to be filled with lots of southern charm as well as interesting and entertaining characters. There is even a ghost who is Sarah Booths ancestor named Jitty with quite the sense of humor! This is a book that will make you laugh. And I didn't know who did it till the very end!
I give it 7\10
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Greedy Bones (A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery)
Other Books By Carolyn Haines
Wishbones (A Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery)
Them Bones: A Mystery from the Mississippi Delta
Splintered Bones
Buried Bones
Crossed Bones