Books


Ghost at Work
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: October 21, 2008Series Name: BAILEY RUTH RAEBURN series
A new series from Carolyn Hart!
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Death Walked In
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: March 25, 2008Series Name: Death on Demand
Main Character: Max and Annie Darling
A million-dollar heist of gold coins on Broward’s Rock shocks residents on the placid South Carolina sea island. Soon after the coins disappear, a woman calls Max Darling’s office, telling his secretary she needs help. Max refuses to take the call. He remembers only too well that the last time he tried to help a woman who claimed to be in trouble, he ended up in jail accused of murder.
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Set Sail for Murder
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: April 1, 2007Series Name: Henrie O Mysteries
Main Character: Henrie O Collins
Retired newswoman Henrie O Collins sails on a two-week Baltic cruise to help out an old friend and former boyfriend, James Lennox, who is concerned that someone is trying to kill his wife, documentary filmmaker Sophia Montgomery. James believes that there have already been two attempts on Sophia's life, and he suspects that one of her second husband's children is out to kill her because she controls when they will receive their inheritance. The whole family is required to go on the cruise, during which Sophia will announce her decision regarding the inheritance.
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Dead Days of Summer
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2006Series Name: Death on Demand
Main Character: Max and Annie Darling
When bookstore owner Annie Darling's PI husband, Max, accepts a new case and fails to come home, she's frantic and calls in all her friends, including the police. The authorities organize an effective search that leads to the body of an attractive woman near Max's abandoned car; in the trunk is the murder weapon. Portrayed by the press as an unfaithful husband and killer, Max is arrested as soon as he surfaces. Annie goes undercover, determined to clear Max's name even if it means putting herself in a cunning murderer's path.
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Death of the Party
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2005Series Name: Death on Demand
That comfy crime-solving couple, bookstore owner Annie Darling and her devoted husband, Max, investigate the murder of media magnate Jeremiah Addison in Hart's feel-good 16th Death on Demand mystery (after 2004's Murder Walks the Plank). Addison apparently fell by accident down the marble staircase inside his mansion on his private South Carolina island, Golden Silk, but his sister-in-law, Britt Barlow, knows better, because immediately afterward she removed the trip wire she found strung at the head of the stairs.
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Murder Walks the Plank
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2004Main Character: Max and Annie Darling
Annie Darling's murder mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is going swimmingly -- until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max's courageous rescue attempt, faux murder turns all too quickly into real-life death. As the body count rises over the next few days, the popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore begins to suspect that all the victims were murdered most foully, and that they are all connected in some unknown way.
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Engaged to Die
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2003Series Name: Death on Demand
Main Character: Max and Annie Darling
"Hart supplies superior cozy fare in her 14th mystery (after 2002's April Fool Dead) to feature amateur sleuth Annie Darling and her husband, Max. Everyone in the Low Country island of Broward's Rock, S.C., has been looking forward to the gala opening of a new art collection at the Neville Gallery, owned by heiress Virginia Neville, who intends to use the evening not only to dispel the foggy gloom of January on the island but also to announce her engagement to much younger artist Jake O'Neill. However, the party quickly ends when Jake turns up murdered.
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Letter From Home
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2003A persistent sense of loss and longing accounts for the bittersweet tone of Carolyn Hart's LETTER FROM HOME (Berkley Prime Crime, $22.95). Set in a small-town America that lives only in memory, this artfully narrated whodunit observes the residents of an unnamed Oklahoma hamlet over the hot and dusty summer of 1944 as they ration their food, count their war dead and turn on their neighbors.
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April Fool Dead
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2002Series Name: Death on Demand
Main Character: Max and Annie Darling
Death is no joke on Broward's Rock, though reading about deadly doings remains as popular a pastime as ever for citizens of the stormy South Carolina sea island. Now, with spring newly sprung, Annie Darling has conceived of an ingenious promotional scheme to draw customers into her Death on Demand bookshop for the upcoming in-store appearance by world-class mystery author Emma Clyde. Offering a free book to anyone who can solve a series of clues about popular whodunits, Annie and hubby Max pass out their flyers all over town.
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Resort to Murder
Author: Carolyn Hart
Published: January 1, 2001Series Name: Henrie O Mysteries
Main Character: Henrie O Collins
Retired Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Henrietta Collins no longer races around the globe in pursuit of news. But her talent for troubleshooting and her zest for life are much needed at a family gathering in sunny Bermuda, whre murder prowls the halls of a luxury hotel.
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