If only I hadnt kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldnt have listened to that ghost....Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesnt make her the deadest.No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end up in Sarah Booths situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, shes flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Not to mention being haunted by the ghost of her great-great-grandmothers nanny, who never misses an opportunity to remind her of her sorry state--or to suggest a plan of action, like ransoming her friends prize pooch to raise some cash.But soon Sarah Booths walk on the criminal side leads her deeper into unladylike territory, and shes hired to solve a murder.