Books like A gift of bones by Carolyn Haines

A forensic anthropologist uncovers the grim truth of a Guatemalan massacre and then faces a new mystery of vanished women, forcing her to confront violence that spans borders.

Three Portland teens—Alexis, Nick, and Ruby—track a missing autistic man, only to uncover a body and a sharp‑witted investigation that turns them into unlikely detectives in their own right.

"Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are still recovering from the attack on Scott Hampton's blues club in Zinnia, Missippia, and Sarah Booth herself is still overcoming her grief at ending things with her fiancé. One bitterly cold night at her family's ancestral home in Zinnia, Sarah Booth hears what sounds like a kitten as she passes the front door. She opens the door to find a newborn baby in a basket on her front porch - with bloody footsteps leading up to the door and back down the driveway. As soon as she steps outside, a loud engine guns and a dark colored vehicle takes off. It's too far away for Sarah Booth to get a good look, and besides, the baby is now her first priority.After rushing the baby to the hospital and calling the police, Sarah Booth and Tinkie Richmond, her partner at the Delaney Detective Agency, know they need to do everything they can to find the baby's mother...even if they are starting to fall in love with the baby themselves. But as she tracks the baby's mother, Sarah Booth soon begins to suspect the woman might be in danger; in fact, she might be running for her own life. And following in the woman's footsteps, Sarah Booth might be next"--

Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a high‑stakes case involving a rumored stolen necklace and a suspicious heiress, only to discover the client has vanished, forcing her to unravel family secrets and decide whom to trust.

When a reclusive artist is found dead, Southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney and partner Tinkie Bellcase investigate the motives of three Wiccan sisters seeking to open a school in Mississippi—uncovering a murky web of suspicion and intrigue.

A Delta belle turned sleuth uncovers deadly secrets at a roulette‑laden dinner party when a murder, a missing biography, and a stubborn antebellum ghost collide.

Unwed, unemployed, and broke, Southern belle Sarah Booth Delaney turns to her detective instincts in the Mississippi town of Zinnia to solve a murder and protect her family plantation, all while a ghost from the past watches her every move.

A charming, suspenseful mystery featuring Agatha Raisin, a charming but slightly inexperienced private investigator, as she solves a series of murders in a small English village.

"Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success ... until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door. Sarah Booth knew Sister in college, before Sister became a bestselling author and moved to New York, and fame and fortune don't seem to have tempered her arrogance and cruelty. Sister's latest book is a memoir about the death of her mother and brother many years ago. Now, a film about the book is in the works, and a film crew has descended upon Zinnia, Mississippi, to tell the complete story. The film crew soon realizes there may be more to the story than meets the eye--or is told in Sister's memoir--and they hire Sarah Booth to discover the absolute truth about those deaths so many years ago. But Sarah Booth quickly realizes that someone is desperate to keep the truth hidden and will go to any lengths necessary to protect a long-held secret. Carolyn Haines's next Sarah Booth Delaney novel, Sticks and Bones, is sure to delight series fans and newcomers alike"--