Private investigation isnt on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishmentsbut its saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarahfrom 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 Zinnias darkest secrets, it becomes plain that each and every guest has a secretand 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 underor soon will beand if she doesnt tread carefully, she could join them any day now. . . .