Bookshop Interview with Author Carolyn Haines (Episode #127)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Carolyn Haines discusses her new novel, Independent Bones. It is the latest installment in the long-running Sarah Booth mystery series, in which unconventional Southern belle and private investigator, Sarah Booth Delaney, gets into more trouble solving another mystery in her small town in the Mississippi Delta. Carolyn admits that Sarah Booth and the other characters are like family now, given how long she’s been writing this series, and she has no plans to stop any time soon. Carolyn was a journalist before she became a novelist. Both of her parents were in the newspaper business, and Carolyn began working for the newspaper when she was just 12 years old. She never intended to write mysteries, let alone a long-running series, but one thing led to another…and the release of Independent Bones makes this #23 in the Sarah Booth series. She is also the creator of the Trouble Cat mystery series, which she writes with a multi-author collaborative. In this episode, I’ll chat with Carolyn about her writing journey, why the unique contrasts of the Mississippi Delta make it an ideal setting for mysteries, and how writing saved her life by giving her focus when times were tough.

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