Haines, Carolyn: - Carolyn Haines is the USA Today bestselling author of over eighty novels in a number of genres, including the acclaimed Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series and the Pluto's Snitch mystery series. She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alabama Public Library Association and the Mississippi Writer's Guild and in 2020 she was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.Born and raised in Mississippi, she now lives in Alabama on a farm with more dogs, cats, and horses than she can possibly keep track of! She has been an animal advocate and activist her whole life and urges all pet owners to please spay and neuter.