Eilonwy's Reviews > A Gift of Bones

Just before Christmas, Sarah Booth Delaney's friend Cece receives a message that her young cousin Eve is being held for ransom. Complicating matters, Eve is pregnant and due any minute, while Cece is estranged from that part of her family. Can Sarah Booth figure out who is holding Eve, why they would do such a thing, and most important, where Eve is?

I enjoyed last year's Christmas mystery in this series so much that I decided to look for another one even though I'm supposedly reading the books in order now.

This did not disappoint! I love this series. Sarah Booth has a great voice and outlook, the Mississippi delta setting is vivid, and all of the characters are great people to spend time with. The pacing is great, as always with these books, and I zoomed through the story. Everything worked out to great satisfaction. I'm not entirely sure about the medical plot driver, but that's a small quibble.

Now I've got to get back to the beginning and keep working my way forward.