Gaddi was a member of a family of artists that flourished in the early part of the Renaissance. He painted a series of frescoes in Sants Croce, the most famous of which is the "True Cross", which is situated in the choir and was finished in the late 1380s. This book considers his life and work.

Product Description: "Sarah Booth Delaney helps her old flame Scott Hampton investigate a mysterious message threatening him and his bandmates. The threat becomes reality when the bartender from Scott's club is gunned down in a drive-by and Sarah Booth is caught in a race against the clock as she tries to stop a killer from striking again"-...read more

Utilizes the resonance principle to explain the ways in which the electronic media is reviving nonlinear communication in modern society

When PI Sarah Booth Delaney and her partner and best friend, Tinkie, take on Monica and Eleanor Levert as clients, they don't have much hope of solving the case. The wealthy heiresses of Briarcliff in Natchez, Mississippi, claim that a family necklace worth four million dollars has been stolen, and they think that they can hurry the insurance payout if a reputable PI investigates. Sarah Booth has her doubts, and not just about the payout. All of the evidence suggests that the sisters might be committing fraud. But when they have just started scratching the surface on the sordid past of the Levert family and the blood money that all of their wealth was founded upon, Monica goes missing. The police suspect that the heiresses are playing more games, and Eleanor isn't doing anything to make them think any different. But how can she? If she says or does anything besides pass on the insurance money to the kidnappers, they'll kill Monica. With a family history that runs deep and dark and a twisting plot where no one is exactly what they seem, Sarah Booth and Tinkie are the Levert sisters' best and only hope in Bones of a Feather, the latest in Carolyn Haines sparkling Southern mystery series.

Whan a local girl is found dead in a cotton field and her lover stands accused of the crime, southern belle and fearless P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by the suspect's brother to expose the real killer.

Product Description: It's time to catch a killer or walk the plank for P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney in Booty Bones, award-winning author Carolyn Haines's latest whodunit. Yo ho! Sarah Booth Delaney's fiancé, Graf, is recovering from a severe leg injury, and Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal...read more

Product Description: Sarah Booth Delaney's fiance, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She's arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast.

Southern belle-turned-private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney struggles to cope with her antebellum Delta estate's local ghost, who is determined to save her from spinsterhood, and with Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party, a lavish occasion that end in murder after the host brags about his new tell-all biography that could blow the lid off the town's darkest secrets. (Mystery)

Haunted by a busybody ghost and constantly nagged about finding a husband, thirtysomething Mississippi private detective Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the murder of a black blues-club owner and finds herself caught in the middle of a town torn apart by racial prejudice when the victim's white protégé becomes the prime suspect in the killing. (Mystery)

Product Description: A dollar donation for every book sold will be given to the Rock River Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping the arts and literacy in the Delta.Contributing to the volume are Ace Atkins, Lynne Barrett, James Lee Burke, Suzann Ellingsworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bill Fitzhugh, Tom Franklin, John Grisham, Carolyn Haines, Charlaine Harris, Suzanne Hudson, Alice Jackson, Dean James, Toni L...read more

When Henri Bastion, a wealthy plantation owner in 1944 New Iberia, Louisiana, turns up dead and eviscerated, Deputy Raymond Thibodeaux is confronted by Adele Hebert, a prime suspect in the killing, who is found covered in blood next to the body and who claims to be a legendary Cajun shapehshifter known as the loup garou. 20,000 first printing.

Sarah is no stranger to drama. So when this talented actress and a P.I. hears that her best friend's husband is suddenly on his deathbed back home, she snaps into "action!" and gets right on the case...Turns out others in Zinnia, Mississippi, have fallen prey to the illness as well. The folks from the Centers for Disease Control are on the scene, but they can't find a cure for it...or for the boll weevils that are decimating Sunflower County's cotton crop. With patients in quarantine and the whole town in crisis, Sarah will go out on a limb to stop the outbreak--and try to save the only place she's been proud enough to call home.

Sarah Booth Delaney is both a Southern lady and a skilled detective, but her latest case takes her into the murky world of New Orleans where motives for murder, and a list of suspects, are as numerous as the stories of spiritual malfeasance that permeate the air. Reprint.

A touring production of 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' brings murder and mayhem into the life of P.I. Sarah Booth when the costar, a much-despised diva and current lover of Sarah's old flame, is poisoned, and all evidence points to Sarah.

Product Description: Dixon Sinclair arrives in Jexville, Mississippi, the town of her forebears, to find solace, stop drinking, and rebuild her life after her father’s murder. As the new publisher of the weekly newspaper and a second-generation journalist, she’s determined to ignite the political will of the townspeople and expose the corruption of the old guard...read more

A portrait of Peggy Morgan describes how one woman struggled to escape the brutality, poverty, neglect, and abuse of her childhood in rural Mississippi, her marriage ot Lloyd Morgan, her exposure to the racial violence of a South caught up in the Civil Rights Movement, and her key role as a witness for the prosecution at the retrial of Byron De La Beckwith, the man ultimately convicted of killing Medgar Evers.

Jade Dupree is a beautician and an undertaker's assistant with a gift for smoothing the ravages of death from the faces of her clientele. But her strange talent isn't the only thing that sets her apart from the townspeople of tiny Drexel, Mississippi. Jade is half-black and the unacknowledged bastard daughter of Drexel's "first lady," the imperious Lucille Longier. Jade's half sister, the pale, fragile, and legitimate Marlena, is married to Lucas Bramlett, the wealthiest man in the region. While the entire town knows of the blood bond between the two women, no one dares speak the truth out loud. Though her talents as a hairdresser are highly sought after by Drexel's elite, Jade accepts that she'll never truly be part of the town and lives her life the best she can. But on one hot summer day in 1952, Jade's world is turned inside out when Marlena, on a tryst with her lover, is savagely beaten and her young daughter kidnapped. Determined to find her niece before it's too late, Jade accepts help from a white sheriff's deputy, Frank Kimble. The forbidden attraction that ignites between them threatens to add to the violence already brewing in town. Carolyn Haines has written several acclaimed mysteries, but here she mines much darker, more serious territory, resulting in a suspenseful, lyrical, passionate, and literary crime novel.

Haunted by the death of her daughter, reporter Carson Lynch, self-medicating herself with vodka, karaoke, and work, returns home to Mississippi, where she lands a story that might save her career--and end her life--when she becomes obsessed with a twisted serial killer. Original.

Product Description: Too much knowledge can be deadly for P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney in her latest undertaking in Smarty Bones, the thirteenth novel in Carolyn Haines's award-winning mystery series.Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi, to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, an anonymous but perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful body...read more