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USA鈥檚 Carolyn Haines on USA Today Bestseller List

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Posted on August 31, 2015

Alice Jackson

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A novella by nationally recognized writer Carolyn Haines, assistant professor of English and fiction coordinator at the 黑料天堂, is part of an e-bundle named to the USA Today bestseller list on Thursday, Aug. 27.

鈥淜iller Tales鈥� is a digital collection of eight mysteries, each written by a bestselling and award winning female writer and featuring a crime-solving dog or cat. Haines鈥� 鈥淕uru Bones鈥� features Mississippi Delta sleuth Sarah Booth and her sidekick Tinkie, characters from the popular 鈥淏ones鈥� series, and their four-legged gumshoes Sweetie Pie, Chablis and Pluto, who save the day.

Other writers in the collection are Carole Nelson Douglas, Leighann Dobbs, Harper Lin, Connie Shelton, Pamela DuMond, Denise Dietz and Joanne Pence.

The USA Today bestseller list is second only to the New York Times bestseller list for tracking the popularity of American hardcover, softcover and digital book sales across genres.

Kirkus Reviews described Haines鈥� offering as 鈥淪tephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood,鈥� and the Providence Journal-Bulletin declared the collection to be 鈥渓ight, breezy, and just plain fun.鈥�

Haines is the author of more than 100 fiction and non-fiction books, including the critically acclaimed novels 鈥淪ummer of the Redeemers鈥� and 鈥淭ouched,鈥� as well as 鈥淒elta Blues,鈥� an anthology of short stories by some of America鈥檚 best-known writers, including John Grisham and James Lee Burke. Haines collaborated on 鈥淒elta Blues鈥� with actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman with a portion of the book鈥檚 proceeds going to his literary foundation.

Haines is also a recipient of two of the 黑料天堂鈥檚 most prestigious writing awards 鈥� the Harper Lee Award for Alabama鈥檚 Distinguished Writer of the Year in 2010 and Mississippi鈥檚 Richard Wright Literary Excellence Award in 2009.

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