Sarah Booth Delaney Books in Order

Facing the loss of her Mississippi plantation, Sarah Booth Delaney kidnaps a friend’s dog for ransom. Her desperate scheme leads to private investigation, an old murder case, and dangerous questions about an attractive potential killer.

At a dinner party, writer Lawrence Ambrose announces a memoir that will expose Zinnia’s darkest secrets. When a corpse appears and the manuscript disappears, private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney probes the guests’ motives and buried histories.

Sarah Booth Delaney doubts her friend Eulalee’s confession to killing her violent husband. Suspecting she is protecting her teenage daughter, Sarah investigates the family and horse-racing community while facing a killer preparing to strike again.

Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to clear guitarist Scott Hampton of murdering his mentor, blues pianist Ivory Keys. Their prison friendship and Scott’s abandoned racist beliefs complicate a case that threatens Sunflower County’s fragile racial harmony.

Sarah Booth Delaney investigates healer Doreen Mallory, accused of killing her infant daughter with sleeping pills. Doubting the official case, she examines Doreen’s guarded relationships with powerful men who may have reasons to conceal the truth.

After scandal-writing Quentin McGee is found suffocated in a cotton field, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired to defend the suspected lover. The victim’s powerful enemies, impending inheritance, and planned second exposé broaden a dangerous investigation.

A touring production brings Sarah Booth Delaney’s former lover Graf back to Zinnia, but his costar dies from poisoned lipstick. With evidence pointing toward Sarah, she must investigate theatrical rivalries to save her reputation and freedom.

Sarah Booth Delaney pursues an acting career and reunites onscreen with Graf in a remake of Body Heat. Filming in Costa Rica brings rivalries, mysterious accidents, and damaging publicity that threaten her long-awaited chance at stardom.

Sarah Booth Delaney leaves Hollywood when a mysterious illness threatens her best friend’s husband and other Mississippi residents. With quarantines rising and cotton crops under attack, she investigates a crisis that scientists cannot readily explain.

A spa and cooking-school getaway offers Sarah Booth Delaney a respite from personal grief until a cook-off contestant is poisoned. Hired by the prime suspect, Sarah and Tinkie investigate the fierce competition for a spokesperson’s job.

Wealthy sisters Monica and Eleanor Levert hire Sarah Booth and Tinkie to investigate a missing necklace, raising suspicions of insurance fraud. When Monica disappears, the detectives uncover a darker family history and a potentially deadly ransom demand.

Sarah Booth Delaney goes undercover as a maid at a haunted estate to investigate a psychic targeting wealthy clients. Suspected fraud becomes more dangerous when she discovers bodies among guests preparing to commune with the dead.

Professor Olive Twist claims a mysterious preserved corpse can expose scandalous links to Zinnia’s prominent families. Hired by alarmed society women, Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the scholar’s agenda, then finds a modern murder complicating the historical mystery.

Sarah Booth Delaney takes her injured fiancé to Dauphin Island for a restorative holiday. A guide’s request to revisit her treasure-hunting father’s murder draws Sarah into a case involving pirate lore, hidden wealth, and disputed guilt.

Sarah Booth Delaney hopes to help her fiancé recover peacefully from a leg wound. An ex-porn star’s claim that she is being stalked interrupts those plans, plunging Sarah into an investigation full of uncertain motives.

Sarah Booth attends a Halloween ball in New Orleans to distract herself from a broken engagement. Threats against her old flame's blues band become alarmingly real when a bartender is killed, sending her searching for the person behind the violence.

A visiting Italian investor disappears during a Delta town's Christmas celebrations after flirting with Tinkie Richmond. Suspicion falls on Tinkie's jealous husband, and Sarah Booth must investigate a body seen in the bayou before her friends face serious charges.

Reluctantly attending a health and lifestyle lecture, Sarah Booth finds herself investigating a body discovered in the venue's kitchen. Working with Tinkie, she uncovers unexpected complications surrounding the visiting activist whose seminar has brought murder to Zinnia.

Sarah Booth hopes to enjoy Christmas despite her broken engagement, but a pastor's wife arrives with an urgent request. Investigating the boys blamed for disrupting last year's Christmas pageant may be the only way to keep this year's celebration safe.

A newborn appears on Sarah Booth's porch with blood beneath the basket and a vehicle speeding away. She and Tinkie search for the child's mother, increasingly suspecting that the woman was fleeing a danger that may now threaten them too.

Tinkie's elegant Valentine's costume party turns disastrous when the guests are robbed and the expected Cupid fails to appear. Sarah Booth and Tinkie investigate his strange replacement, discovering that the mystery involves more danger than the missing valuables suggest.

A film crew hires Sarah Booth to verify a bestselling writer's memoir about her mother's and brother's deaths. Returning to the old tragedy reveals discrepancies, and someone determined to preserve its secrets makes the investigation increasingly dangerous.

Christmas plans vanish when Cece receives a ransom demand for her pregnant young relative, Eve. Sarah Booth and Tinkie race to locate the missing teenager, confronting estranged family relationships and a kidnapper who threatens to turn the holiday deadly.

Three sisters arrive in Zinnia intending to open a Wiccan boarding school on property desired by developers. Their plans stir hostility, and mounting deaths draw Sarah Booth into a mystery where local interests and suspicions about witchcraft collide.

Jitty asks Sarah Booth to stop her dead husband from taking revenge that could cost him his place in the afterlife. On Halloween, Sarah Booth ventures to a cursed plantation, facing its ghosts and a confrontation between past suffering and living descendants.

After a ritualistic murder at a Native American archaeological site, the accused director hires Sarah Booth to clear his name. Further violence, rumors of a curse, and hints of a hidden prize complicate her search among the dig's competing interests.

Sarah Booth and her friends travel to Columbus for Christmas shopping and celebrations, only to encounter a series of potentially fatal accidents. She and Tinkie investigate whether the festive mishaps conceal deliberate attacks before another holiday event turns dangerous.

Sarah Booth finds an abandoned toddler in the woods with a note claiming the child is cursed. Searching for her family leads Sarah and Coleman toward Mississippi River communities, where the girl's unusual qualities and a devastated town deepen the mystery.

An Easter trip with Tinkie and Cece takes Sarah Booth to a garden recreating the Holy Land. Discovering a murdered lawyer during sunrise celebrations interrupts their holiday, leaving her to sort through the enemies his underhanded dealings have created.

A visiting feminist professor attracts admiration and threats before a notorious domestic abuser is found dead. Sarah Booth investigates at the professor's request, but links to earlier deaths complicate her efforts to decide whether her client is victim or killer.

Sarah Booth and Tinkie visit Bay St. Louis to judge a Christmas tree contest alongside two feuding authors. When one writer and her assistant disappear, the rival hires them to investigate a mystery involving bloodstains and stories of Al Capone's hidden fortune.

A mother asks Sarah Booth to find her journalist daughter, who vanished while investigating recurring Halloween disappearances in New Orleans. Suspicions about an influential cult lead the detective into a dangerous world of secretive leaders and possible human sacrifice.