Dead Days of Summer [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Carolyn Hart (Author), Kate Reading (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2006

Myster, thriller and suspense

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Books on Tape (2006)
• ISBN-10: 1415933774
• ISBN-13: 978-1415933770
• ASIN: B000LYD8HM
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,397,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!, April 26, 2006

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Detra Fitch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Days of Summer (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 17) (Hardcover)

Maxwell "Max" Darling's business is called "Confidential Commissions". It is much like a private investigator business. He gets a new client who is searching for her brother. Knowing his wife, Annie, would worry unless he let her know he'd be late, Max calls.

Annie Darling gets worried when Max never gets home that night. A search party begins. The police locates a dead woman that same night. The murder weapon is found in the trunk of Max's nearby Jag. The lady had been seen by many witnesses at a bar the night before. Max and the lady looked to be having an affair. But no one knows where Max is.

The police finally locate Max stumbling down a road. All the evidence, and there is quite a bit, points to Max begin the killer. But Annie refuses to believe it. Annie finally takes matters into her own hands and goes undercover to catch a killer.

***** It is no wonder this author has won several Agathas and Anthonys. Carolyn Hart's writing talent is still taking the Mystery world by storm and looks as though it may continue to do so for a long time. This novel is but one example of her awesome creativity skills. One thing is certain: I look forward to many more books in this mystery series. *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Max is missing!, April 25, 2006

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Dawn Dowdle "Mystery Lovers Corner reviewer" (Lynchburg, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Days of Summer (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 17) (Hardcover)

Max Darling starts a new case helping a young woman look for her brother. But when he doesn't come home, his wife Annie starts searching for him. In her search, she encounters someone in his office in the dark. Annie is certain something has gone wrong. Max just doesn't disappear like that.

When a young woman is found murdered in a cabin, Max becomes the number one suspect. But he's still missing.

Annie and her friends step up the search. Finally he is found walking along a road and taken to the police station for questioning.

Max doesn't remember much. What he does remember isn't helpful. He is arrested. Annie decides she has to do something to help free Max. There is too much circumstantial evidence against him. But, can she get the information in time without putting herself in danger?

I really enjoy this series. I like series set in the south, and Broward's Rock, SC, is a great island setting. It has been a while since I had gotten to read one of these. I think that's part of the reason I had a little trouble getting into the beginning of the story. Once it got going, I fully enjoyed it. I liked the way Annie went undercover to help find the truth to free Max. Having the help of all her friends really made the difference.

Annie is such a likeable character. I think the fact that she owns a mystery bookstore helps me like her a lot, too. Max is a fun character. The way he and Annie interact is wonderful. This book really let us see the strength of all their friends and that was great.

I highly recommend this book!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Things are not always as they seem, April 19, 2006

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Days of Summer (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 17) (Hardcover)

Annie Darling, proprietor of the Death on Demand Bookstore, receives a phone call from her husband, Max, who says that he must meet with a client and will be home late. When he does not come home at all, Annie knows that something is wrong and she begins looking for him. He is nowhere to be found, but police do find the dead body of the woman that he was meeting that night. Plenty of witnesses tell the story of their romantic dinner and Max leaving in a drunken stupor, and there is evidence linking Max to the dead woman's murder. Soon he is found and arrested and Annie is not even given a chance to talk to him. Knowing that someone has plotted to make Max look guilty, Annie begins an investigation into the life of the victim. She discovers that Vanessa was very flirtatious and could have angered either a spurned lover or a lover's wife. Against Max's wishes, she persists in her pursuit of the murderer despite possible dangers to herself. This is one of the better Death on Demand books and should please Carolyn Hart's many fans.