Fiction. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:Private investigation isn�??t on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments�??but it�??s saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah�??from spinsterhood. Then comes the perfect social occasion: Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party. . . . 

Ambrose, once a famous man of southern letters, is planning a comeback: a delicious tell-all with a bitchy ex-model as his �??biographer.�?� As he taunts his dinner guests with the news that his book will blow the lid off Zinnia�??s darkest secrets, it becomes plain that each and every guest has a secret�??and wants Ambrose to keep it. When the morning-after mess includes a bloody corpse and the manuscript of the biography disappears, Sarah Booth goes digging for answers. But many who hold them are six feet under�??or soon will be�??and if she doesn�??t t