Death on Demand mysteries
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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The show must go on . . .
When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtain falls on mean-spirited grande dame Corinne Webster. While jeweled fingers point, accusing Annie of murder, the perpetrator...
When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtain falls on mean-spirited grande dame Corinne Webster. While jeweled fingers point, accusing Annie of murder, the perpetrator...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Deadly valentine , Death on Demand mysteries volume 6
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 7
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English
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A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
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Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she's faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has vanished and Max is the prime suspet in an unspecified crime.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 9
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English
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The bookstore owner, Annie Darling, is chaperoning five authors at a book fair in North Carolina when a publisher announces he will write a book exposing the writers' darker side. When the publisher is poisoned, suspicion falls on Annie who now must turn sleuth to clear her name. By the author of Southern Ghost.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
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Mystery bookstore owner and sleuth Annie Darling of South Carolina searches for the killer of a general whose racism and sexism created many enemies. Suspects range from a black man to a gay librarian. By the author of Mint Julep Murder.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 13
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English
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To celebrate an April Fool's Day appearance by the island's most famous mystery author, Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling creates a unique promotion-- a free book to anyone who can solve a series of clues about popular whodonits. But an April Fool prankster is distributing a counterfeit flyer, complete with not-so-fague accusations of murder. Annie, is out to find the culprit, but it's no laughing matter when murder is added to the mix....
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 15
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English
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When Annie Darling, the popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, throws a cruise-party with guests dressing up as their favorite fictional sleuths, it's a success - that is until one of the revelers plunges overboard and faux murder turns into real-life death.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 17
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English
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When PI Max Darling is arrested for murder, his wife Annie goes undercover to clear his name.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 18
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English
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A fortune in gold coins stolen from a house filled with visiting family members lies at the root of this Max and Annie Darling mystery.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 19
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English
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A mysterious young woman returns to the island to make amends, but a ruthless killer fears she will recall one long ago, foggy night.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 20
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English
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"Carolyn Hart is one of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery."
-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Return to Broward's Rock in Laughed 'Til He Died, Carolyn Hart's landmark 20th novel in her much loved and critically acclaimed Death on Demand mystery series. Island sleuths Annie and Max Darling must solve three related local murders in this wonderful new whodunit by the multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winner-a must for fans...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 22
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English
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Annie Darling, owner of the mystery bookstore Death on Demand, jumps at the chance to host a book signing with a local writer. But since it conflicts with her shift at the charity shop Better Tomorrow, Annie asks fellow volunteer Gretchen Burkholt to sub for her. The signing goes well, but Gretchen leaves several voice mails about scandalous news she's dying to share. Annie heads over to Better Tomorrow after the signing - and finds Gretchen murdered....
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of woman wives hate--for good reason--and most of them wish...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 24
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English
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"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...
25) Don't go home
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 25
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English
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"Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon--and former Broward's Rock resident--Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, "Don't Go Home." But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the real-life inspirations behind his characters, perhaps the author should take his own advice. Not everyone in town is ready to give him a glowing review....
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 26
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English
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"Annie Darling's friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her with his estate, and upon her death, his fortune is to be divided. Several cash-strapped islanders are in line to collect life-changing inheritances. The problem is, Ves is very much alive. Ves hosts a dinner for the prospective beneficiaries and feels a chill in the air that has nothing to do with the wintry season. Not long after,...
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Crime on her mind: a collection of short stories
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