The prime suspect in the murder of author Elliot Morgan, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear her name. Originally in paperback.
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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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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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Debut novel in the series,
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This review is from: Death on Demand (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
Annie Laurance runs a mystery book store, Death on Demand, which she inherited from her beloved uncle. Once a week she has a meeting of the Sunday Night Regulars, local mystery writers from the South Carolina island where she lives. One of the writers, Elliot Morgan is a disagreeable fellow who threatens to reveal things about his fellow writers which they would prefer to keep quiet. Before he has a chance to do so he is killed, presumably by one of the Sunday Night Regulars. The local police suspect it is Annie herself but with her friend Max Darling, she sets out to find the real murderer. Max and Annie discover that each of the Regulars has avoided a brush with the law and each has something to hide which Elliot could have known about. There are lots of wonderful references to classic mysteries and mystery writers as Annie and Max work to solve the case. This is the first book of a justly popular series.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Especially for mystery buffs,
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Since milieu is such an important part of a mystery novel, avid mystery readers will like Hart's Death on Demand book store and the cozy little island community in which it is located. Most of the characters are mystery novelists, and if the crimes and solutions are not brain teasers of the first order, mystery fans will enjoy the familiar references.
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First in an enjoyable series,
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This review is from: Death on Demand (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 1) (Mass Market Paperback)
A delightful book, with endearing characters, this is the first in a series. The setting, an island off the South Carolina coast, is pleasantly unusual, and Annie's affection for it and for her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, "the best mystery bookstore this side of Atlanta," as well as the whole genre of mysteries, are contagious. The comments on various mystery authors on whom she dotes have me dogearing pages so I can hunt up books by enticing authors I've never tried. I look forward to Annie's comments on books I have read or the appearance of books I recognize in her monthly mystery painting contest. The courtship is a lot of fun, and Max Darling's winning move in the campaign will bring a smile to the face of anyone who treasures books.
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Alone, each item was insignificant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coffee area, circuit box, storeroom door, cash desk, central aisle, sea pines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Broward's Rock, Emma Clyde, Kelly Rizzoli, Fritz Hemphill, Chief Saulter, Hal Douglas, Elliot Morgan, Harriet Edelman, Miss Laurance, Jeff Farley, Sunday Night Regulars, New York, Annie Laurance, Carmen Morgan, South Carolina, Ingrid Jones, Coast Guard, Janis Farley, Jill Kearney, Ambrose Bailey, Max Darling, Silver City, Hercule Poirot, Jimmy Moon, Miss Marple New!
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Alone, each item was insignificant. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coffee area, circuit box, storeroom door, cash desk, central aisle, sea pines Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Broward's Rock, Emma Clyde, Kelly Rizzoli, Fritz Hemphill, Chief Saulter, Hal Douglas, Elliot Morgan, Harriet Edelman, Miss Laurance, Jeff Farley, Sunday Night Regulars, New York, Annie Laurance, Carmen Morgan, South Carolina, Ingrid Jones, Coast Guard, Janis Farley, Jill Kearney, Ambrose Bailey, Max Darling, Silver City, Hercule Poirot, Jimmy Moon, Miss Marple New!
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- Something Wicked (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 3) by Carolyn G. Hart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Honeymoon with Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 4) by Carolyn G. Hart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Scandal in Fair Haven by Carolyn G. Hart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Mint Julep Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 9) by Carolyn G. Hart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- A Little Class on Murder (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 5) by Carolyn G. Hart in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
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- April Fool Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 13) by Carolyn Hart on 11 pages
- Sugarplum Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 12) by Carolyn Hart on 6 pages
- Yankee Doodle Dead (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 10) by Carolyn Hart on 6 pages
- Dead Man's Island by Carolyn G. Hart on 5 pages
- Resort to Murder: A Henrie O Mystery by Carolyn Hart on 5 pages
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