Lawrence Ambrose has returned to Zinnia, Mississippi, from his home in
Paris, and is having a Christmas Eve dinner party with a guest list that
reads like a Who's Who from the highest society circles in the country.
He's an old friend of Sarah Booth Delaney's parents, though Sarah Booth
can't remember him at all. But, in honor of his old friends, she's invited
to the party, too. Lawrence is a world famous author and artist who is
about to rock the literary and celebrity world with a tell-all
autobiography, written with a bitchy ex-model, that promises to tear the lid
off long-kept secrets held by his guests. One of the guests is determined
that Ambrose keep their secret, apparently, because the after-party mess
includes a bloody corpse and a missing manuscript. Sarah Booth goes digging
for answers, but many of the people who hold them are six feet under, and if
she's not careful, she could be joining them before the New Year is rung
in....

This is the second in the "Bones" series and it's well-written. The ghost
of Jitty, Sarah Booth's great-great-grandmother's nanny, again plays a part
in the mystery, but much less prominently than in the first book. These
stories are character driven, and they keep getting better. This one gets a
4.5 ( )

Good premise. Took forever to finish. ( )