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Mint Julep Murder

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These books by Carolyn Hart are lots of fun. They make for nice light mystery reading. This book is set on Hilton Head Island, and Ms. Hart shows her love for this island in the writing of this book. There's lots of sleaze and glamour when Annie and her husband Max attend a Southern Book Fair on this island. If I have a complaint about these books, it is that each one always puts Annie or her nearest and dearest as prime suspects in the murder. Why can't they just try to solve a murder because it happens in their vicinity, not because one of them is suspected of killing someone? But the books are still fun, and I always enjoy the references to mystery writers and mystery books made throughout each book.

Annie Darling, proprietor of the bookstore Death on Demand, goes to the Dixie Book Festival, where many southern authors are being featured. She agrees to be an author liason for the five authors who are to receive special awards at the Festival. Publisher Kenneth Hazlitt, a book publisher, arrives and announces that he is writing a "tell-all" expose of the five authors who are being honored. When Hazlitt is poisoned, Annie reasons that it must be one of the five authors, but the local police chief uses circumstantial evidence to accuse Annie! She investigates each of the authors and finds that they all have something to hide. She also announces that she will now take over the book that Hazlitt had threatened to write, in order to flush out the murderer, much to her husband Max's dismay. This is another book in the charming Death on Demand series featuring Hart's delightful couple, Max and Annie Darling. Cozy readers will enjoy this book, as well as the others in the series.

This is a very enjoyable book, as are all the the Death on Demand titles. As in A Little Class on Murder, Henny, Miss Dora and Laurel join forces (they've all written books and are looking for publishers!) to "help" Annie and Max solve the mystery and to try to drive Annie batty in the process. You'll enjoy it.

The entire Death on Demand series by Carolyn Hart make for great reading. Good mysteries, interesting characters. Very much in the Agatha Christie style with a bit more romance (Annie and Max, protagonists) and humor.

I never received this book from Amazon. Evidentally it was lost in the mail, and I am not happy baout ir. From now on, I will drive to the nearest bookstore at the mall before I order through the mail again. All it takes is one screw up, and I quit.

Many times I said it: female authors suck. So does Carolyn Hart with her "Death on Command" baloney. I first found out that my gender cannot write, when I followed Oprah's Book Club. All female authors are beneath mediocricity. What a bunch of literary losers! Then she picked a book "House of Sand and Fog" by a male author. I loved it and promptly was made into a movie. Carolyn Hart I thought had talent when I read one of her short stories. Mint Julep is a disaster. I made two attempts to read it, landet on page 50 and still find myself in a quagmire of boredom. No logic, no story line, just horse feathers.