Professor Olive Twist offers come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive statements she will not only identify the corpse, she can also prove the woman’s scandalous part in the nation’s history. Olive takes it a step too much, though, when she starts connecting top notch Zinnia families using the same scandal. Dander up, Zinnia’s society ladies know only one way to take care of Olive: they ask the private investigative solutions of Sarah Booth Delaney. But Olive’s actual agenda is obvious as Mississippi mud, and when Sarah Booth discovers a present-day useless body, she knows there’s more than just family satisfaction and Southern heritage at stake. If she can’t discover the murderer and fast, it might you need to be Sarah Booth’s life at risk next. Carolyn Haines pulls out all of the halts in Smarty Bone fragments, the next wonderful, sassy, Southern-fried Sarah Booth Delaney secret.