Death on Demand mysteries
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 2
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A murder occurs during the Mystery Night sponsored by the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, and Annie Laurance, planner of Mystery Night and owner of a mystery bookstore, is accused.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 3
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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...
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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling finally tie the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the champagne glasses emptied, Max sweeps Annie into his arms... when the phone rings and a woman on the other end screams bloody murder! The newlyweds rush to the scene of the crime, only to discover that Ingrid Jones, Annie's bookstore assistant,...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 5
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When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap...
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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball--particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-law, Laurel, made a surprise visit to Broward's Rock Island, Annie thought it would be a perfect excuse to skip the party. True to form, Laurel accepted the invitation for all three of them. But the biggest surprise of all came at...
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One of America's most beloved mystery writers, Carolyn G. Hart, the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author, returns to her original mystery series that features Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand Bookstore, and her husband, Max, with -- Song of the South, a trashy roman??clef that details the indiscretions of some famous Southern authors at a writers' conference--writers who more than resemble the Dixie Festival Medallion winners....
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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.
14) Engaged to die
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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling is not about to be left out of the loop when her husband Max is deputized to help Acting Police Chief Billy Cameron investigate the murder of handsome, charming Jake O'Neill who was found dead not long after the announcement of his engagement to much older art patron Virginia Neville.
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 15
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English
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Pleased with the success of her murder-mystery cruise, Annie Darling and her husband, Max, are suddenly on the hunt for a killer when one of the cruise participants falls overboard, the first in a series of suspicious deaths.
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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.
18) Death walked in
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 18
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[2008]
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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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Death on Demand mysteries volume 19
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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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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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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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2013.
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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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"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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"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'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...