Lady of Bones

Haines crafts a mystery that combines solving crimes with supernatural elements in the 24th “Sarah Booth Delaney” title (following Independent Bones). It opens with Sarah Booth, a private investigator, and her friends preparing for Halloween festivities in their Mississippi town. But soon, Sarah heads to New Orleans to find out what happened to a young journalist, Christa, who went missing while investigating the disappearance of young women over a five-year period—one a year and always during Halloween. Christa’s mother, Frankie, has turned to the Delaney Detective Agency because she suspects a Garden District-based group known as People of Eternity is responsible. The group could include members of New Orleans’ law enforcement community. Soon Sarah, her boyfriend, Coleman, and Frankie delve into a world of cults, rituals, sex trafficking, and the quest for immortality, all while trying to find the missing women. With the French Quarter and Garden District as a backdrop, readers will experience New Orleans along with the characters.