A review by git_r_read
Booty Bones by Carolyn Haines

4.0

Sarah Booth and Tinkie are forces of nature. This is first and foremost what I love about this series. Their friendship and the way they go through life is a joy to watch. The mystery is always good, but the anchor is the relationship between these two strong women.
Which is why I wasn't as fond of this book as the others in the series I've read. It's the same as I feel about the first part of the season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Buffy goes to college and seems to lose her mojo. I don't like seeing my favorite strong chickies getting emotionally tossed about with self-doubt.
Sarah Booth takes her fiance, Graf, to a nice vacation so that he can rehab from his gunshot wound in peace and quiet. He is distant and starts disappearing for hours on end. There's another woman in the picture.
I was glad that there was a satisfying mystery to solve and treasure to find to keep me reading. I love this series and I didn't want to give up just because I wanted to smack Graf and Sarah Booth about to clear their craniums and get off the pity-wagon. I know characters have to grow and develop so that they don't become one-dimensional, but I really got fed up. I was glad that Tinkie was there to smack Sarah Booth upside the cranium, metaphorically and otherwise.
I can recommend this book and definitely this series and anything that Carolyn Haines would like to write.