Kate Reading
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"Annie'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, she suffers...
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When her fellow charity shop volunteer Gretchen Burkholt is murdered, Dead on Demand Mystery shop owner Annie Darling enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 18
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[2008]
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English
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Annie and Max Darling are pulled into a murder investigation when the previous owner of the house they are restoring is found dead and they learn the killer believes that hidden inside the Darling's home is a fortune in gold coins.
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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. As Annie...
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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,...
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Bookstore owner Annie Darling fears the worst when her husband, Max, disappears while investigating a new case, but when the police and media link Max to the murder of a young woman, Annie uses all her skills to clear her husband's name and find him before it is too late.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 19
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English
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Bookstore owner Annie Darling and her investigator husband Max become caught up in a murder mystery when Iris, a young woman newly returned to Broward's Rock, is found strangled, and the killer makes it obvious the Darlings are next on the death list.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 20
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English
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Mystery bookstore owner, Annie Darling and her husband, Max who specialize in solving problems, plunge into a startling web of danger & deceit when a trio of deaths is linked to the island's youth recreation center.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 12
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Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, calls upon her private investigator husband Max to help her solve two murders--killings that follow a rich former movie star's announced plans to leave her money not to her family but to Dr. Emory Swanson, her questionable spiritual guide, the same man under whose spell Annie's mother-in-law has fallen.
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Henrie O mysteries volume 7
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[2007]
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English
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Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta responds to a former lover's call for help, she accompanies him, his wife and her stepchildren on a cruise to investigate suspicious accidents that keep befalling his wife.
14) Something wicked
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 3
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English
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Everyone -- including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance -- loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoning a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. The star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his lines -- while getting top billing in bedrooms around town. No wonder somebody wants to draw his final curtain. Then a pompous prosecutor tries to pin a...