Brave Hearts (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Carolyn G. Hart (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 278 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME); Large type edition edition (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786219440
• ISBN-13: 978-0786219445
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,819,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Carolyn Hart writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost. Coming in 2012 from Berkley Prime Crime will be DEATH COMES SILENTLY, 22nd in the Death on Demand series, and WHAT THE CAT SAW, fist in the series featuring Nela Farley who has an uncanny sense of cats' thoughts.

She is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is now available for the first time in its complete uncut version. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.

In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Coming in 2013 is HIJACKED GHOST which puts Bailey Ruth at risk of ever returning to Heaven.

Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.

Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.

Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.

Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Love in War, September 15, 2007

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Nash Black "Troubadour" (Jamestown, KY) - See all my reviews
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Carolyn G. Hart's "Brave Hearts" takes the reader from the blitz of London to the malaria infested jungles of the Philippines as star crossed lovers struggle to survive after the fall of Corregidor.
Catherine and Spencer Cavanaugh lead separate lives; under the cover of work he hides an affair with his secretary, Peggy. His wife, Catherine discovers a love that gives life to her barren existence.
A promotion of great consequence drives him to take both women to Manila during the last days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Jack Mcquire uses his press papers to follow Catherine, to protect the his love with his life against government officials that weigh the gold of a fallen nation against the lives of its representatives.
This thriller/love story is not the cozy for which Ms. Hart is famous, but a graphically explicit story of a country at war, told from the stand point of a crack reporter. A different side of Ms. Hart and an excellent read.
Nash Black, author of "Sins of the Fathers" and "Travelers."