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MIGHTY OLD BONES
by Mary Saums
St Martin's Minotaur, May 2008
304 pages
$23.95
ISBN: 0312360649


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British born Jane Thistle moved to the small Alabama town of Tullulah, Alabama after her husband passed away. They had spent their adult lives traveling around the world because he was in the military. Though she looks like a proper English lady, Jane has a hidden history. She worked as a spy for her country for years and now she wants to forget all that and settle in Tullulah and put down deep roots.

After having visited Alabama for a short time years ago, she returned and bought a small home within a large natural area of never-touched land in Tulluah. Happily, almost the first thing she did upon arriving was to make a friend of Phoebe Twigg, another mature woman. Phoebe has never traveled away from her hometown, but she has a remarkable outlook on life and the energy to do as she likes and get what she wants. The women are opposites to one another, but make a wonderful pair of friends.

When a huge storm unearths what looks to be an American Indian burial ground in the deepest untouched region of her land, Jane calls in an old friend, an archeologist, who is an expert in American Indian burial grounds. She swears him to secrecy, but soon she and Phoebe discover that someone has an interest in the grounds and will do anything to get their hands on the treasures that might be found there.

After calling in some of her more interesting friends to help, including a group of ghost hunters, the town's lawman, and a few townsfolk who, though deceased, nevertheless contact Jane over the phone, Jane doesn't know who might want to steal what is at the burial grounds, hoping to make a fortune. But Jane and Phoebe are determined that no one desecrate the burial land and they will fight to preserve it.

Set at Halloween with all that comes along with it in a small town, including superstitions and the local Halloween fun and fright houses for the kids, this book is just about the best of its type.

The main characters are both permitted to tell their sides of the story, thereby letting the readers become even closer to the older women. We get to understand how they both have the courage, even at their time of life, to put everything on the line when it involves their friends, family, and the land that they love.

This is the second of this series. I have read both books and can only hope that there are many more books about these two women to come. Rarely have I enjoyed stories and the people in it as much as I enjoy this pair.

Do not miss MIGHTY OLD BONES by Mary Saums. You will be missing one of the best cozy series around. Already, I find myself checking anxiously for the next installment. I enjoyed this book that much.

Reviewed by Sharon Katz, July 2008

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