Blue Christmas bones

Carolyn Haines

Book - 2024

"Blue Christmas Bones is the next Christmas mystery in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends can't help falling in love with Christmas this year, which they plan to spend celebrating the King of Rock n' Roll at the annual Elvis Festival in Tupelo. The main attraction is an Elvis impersonator competition, drawing impersonators from all over the world to honor the king. But before the revelry can get underway, a priceless jewel-encrusted replica of a belt once worn by Elvis is stolen from its display case, and Sarah Booth and Tinkie are roped into one of the bigg...est heists in the history of Mississippi. Soon suspicious minds are lurking around every corner, with one eyewitness even claiming to have seen Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's long deceased and highly questionable manager, prowling around the festivities. Sarah Booth will have to find the devil in disguise or she might just end up singing Jailhouse Rock herself"--

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Subjects
Genres
Christmas fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Novels
Romans
Published
New York : Minotaur Books 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Carolyn Haines (author)
Edition
First editon
Physical Description
pages cm
ISBN
9781250885968
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Review by Library Journal Review

It sounded like the perfect vacation: enjoying the Christmas Elvis Festival held in Tupelo, MS, the birthplace of the King. However, soon after Sarah Booth Delaney and her crew arrive, they find themselves on a working holiday instead. Someone has boosted a jewel-bedazzled belt (a replica of one once worn by Elvis himself), shortly after Sarah and her friends had been admiring it. Now with no shortage of suspects--and a plethora of Elvis impersonators providing distractions of their own--Sarah and company need to retrieve the belt and ensure that Christmas won't be blue for the people of Tupelo. With 28 entries and counting in this popular series, Haines knows what her fans crave (including a cast of endearingly quirky characters, writing leavened with plenty of Southern-flavored sass and charm, and a mystery plot that functions in many ways as a love letter to all things Elvis), and she delivers it with great gusto. VERDICT Fans of character-driven mysteries with madcap plots will find they can't help falling in love with Haines's latest (after Lights, Camera, Bones).--John Charles

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