Blue Christmas Bones

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.