A collection of fourteen original short works follows themes of fatal attractions and includes Sharyn McCrumb's ""Matchmaker,"" Barbara D'Amato's ""Hard Feelings,"" and P. M. Carlson's ""The Rosewood Coffin, or the Divine Sarah.""
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Carolyn Hart talks about mysteries and writing in a new interview on Oklahoma public tv. Please visit www.CarolynHart.com and click on the link in the upper right hand column.
In April Berkley Prime Crime will publish DEATH COMES SILENTLY, the 22nd Death on Demand title. Coming in October is WHAT THE CAT SAW, a novel of suspense.
Carolyn 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.
Carolyn 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.
In April Berkley Prime Crime will publish DEATH COMES SILENTLY, the 22nd Death on Demand title. Coming in October is WHAT THE CAT SAW, a novel of suspense.
Carolyn 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.
Carolyn 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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WORTH BUYING FOR CANNELL'S "CUPID'S ARROW" & D'AMATO'S "HARD FEELINGS",
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This review is from: Crimes of the Heart (Paperback)
Like Carolyn G. Hart's second anthology (LOVE AND DEATH, 2001), this volume suffers from a serious quality-control problem. Furthermore, despite its title and its claim to contain "14 original tales of love and death," several stories in CRIMES OF THE HEART have little or nothing to do with crimes or with death.As a simple overview, let me say I would give letter grades of "A" to four stories, "B" to five stories, "C" to three stories, and "D" to two stories. Among the factors considered are the authors' cleverness and originality, their ability to pace themselves and stay on track, the appropriateness and vividness of the styles in their narration and dialogue, and the plausibility of the various characters and events within their stories. Four A's: Dorothy Cannell's "Cupid's Arrow" is an excellent Kiplingesque character disclosure story which may--or may not--have a supernatural component in it. Barbara D'Amato's "Hard Feelings" is a good test-your-wits puzzle tale about a policewoman and her partner providing opposite testimony about a fire victim. Jeffrey Deaver's "Together" is a skillful suspense story, whose outcome will probably surprise most readers. Joan Hess's "All That Glitters" is a clever comic crime tale that shows how two wrongs can sometimes make a right. Five B's: Susan Dunlap's "A Contest Fit for a Queen," an amusing puzzle story about "spousal clutter," lets readers try to solve it fairly, but has a tiny flaw involving the word "collar." Lia Matera's "Do Not Resusicate" is a skillful, sad, unpleasant story of a wife with a bad self-image. Sharon McCrumb's "The Matchmaker" is an unrealistic but clever tale about a special kind of dating service. Nancy Pickard's "Valentine's Night" is a clever "premise story" (What if a pair of people whose spouses are cheating on them get together for revenge?). Marilyn Wallace's "Advice to the Lovelorn" is a good suspense story, whose ending some readers will enjoy even if they correctly guess it halfway through. Three C's: P. M. Carlson's "The Rosewood Coffin; or, The Divine Sarah" is implausible historical fiction involving Sarah Burnhardt, narrated by a greedy, nasty American actress. Carolyn G. Hart's "Out of the Ashes" is a weak and disappointing puzzle tale with very lame detection. Margaret Maron's "With This Ring" is a long-winded and disappointing puzzle tale, further marred by implausible dialogue. Two D's: D. R. Meredith's "One Strike Too Many," centered around an elderly woman solving who killed a boy in a bowling alley, is a very lame, long-winded comic puzzle tale with a great many plot holes. Audrey Peterson's "The Bayville Killing" involves a woman learning two bits of truth, but sentimentality, far-fetched coincidences, implausible reactions, and trite writing spoil this happy-ending story.
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