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Bones of Holly is the next novel from Carolyn Haines in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as Stephanie Plum meets the YaYa Sisterhood featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth DelaneySarah Booth and Tinkie along with baby Maylin are in Bay St Louis Mississippi for Christmas this year as judges for the annual library tree decorating contestThe other two judges are writers Sandra ODay and Janet Malone Theyre bestselling Mississippi authors but bitter competitors In fact the feud between them is the stuff of legends For years theyve brawled their sales skyrocketing with each cat fight Sandras most recent true crime book documents the 1920s rumrunning era of Al Capone who built a mansion in BSL and a distribution network for his liquor Janets book scheduled to be published in January is a fictional account of the same materialwhich only heightens their bitter rivalrySarah Booth and Tinkie are shopping with little Maylin when they see Sandra and Janet outside a bookstore fur flying and when Sandra vanishes from her own gala later that night suspicion turns to Janet Janet accuses Sandra of attempting to manipulate the media by a fake disappearance but is it a stunt or is something more sinister at playSarah Booth and Tinkie will have to dive deep into the history of Bay St Louis and even Al Capone himself to get to the bottom of this case But the trail in fact leads them back to several prominent families still residing in the area Families who may not want their secrets known