I'm not a huge fan of the Death on Demand series but they make for enjoyable reads. Max and Annie get caught up in a series of murders that all seem to lead back to the director of Haven. But why would Jean kill two kids? The police don't even believe that those deaths are murders much less conne...
A solid murder mystery, this novel didn’t make much of an impression. It was a nice read while it lasted, it kept me interested until the end, and the tension rose steadily, but the characters were all forgettable and pretty much interchangeable. It’s the #22 in the series, and I didn’t read the ...
I had a little trouble staying with this story, mainly because I really wasn't that concerned about the murder victim. It was a pretty good mystery, but it didn't seem to have quite the twists and turns of previous books in the series. Having said that, I will continue to read this series as long...
Bailey Ruth Raeburn may have died but that does not mean that her detective days are done. Bailey works for Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Bailey's boss is sending Bailey to the Castle. There is a woman there named Kay Clark that need Bailey's protection. Bailey will have her hands full ...
I enjoyed this book not only because I have read and enjoyed so many books by this author, but because I learned something along the way. The story is obviously fiction, because real life would never deal the cards in the way that this couple in war torn Phillipines in WWII has them dealt. But ...
When retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, receives a call for help, she discovers that love once kindled never burns to ashes. Although she refused Jimmy Lennox's marriage proposal, there is still a special place for him in her heart. She wished him well ...
In this book in the Death on Demand series, Max gets a commission to go to a house party on an isolated offshore island with a single owner and no cell or radio service to try to determine who was the murderer of the former owner at a party 18 months previously. Of course, Annie goes with him. ...
The Barnes & Noble Review Award-winning author Carolyn Hart opens an exciting new chapter in the story of insatiably curious Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore. Love is in the air on the Low Country island of Broward's Rock: Annie is passionately devoted to her charming...
I really like the Death On Demand series. Carolyn Hart's writing is always good, but I'm not as taken with her other series - the characters are somehow just not as tactile and reachable as Annie and Max and the rest of Broward's Rock.I know a lot of people don't like book series which have the ...
Our story begins in retrospect with an aging Gretchen receiving a letter from home from her childhood friend Barb. As Gretchen lets her mind wander back to that fateful and tragic summer, she tells the story of how she became set on the path of becoming a successful journalist. Her story takes us...
There are good things that I liked and bad things that were annoying about this book. Good: I really enjoyed not knowing for sure what was going to happen next. Annie keeps right on getting herself into all kinds of trouble and Max keeps getting her out of it. They seemed to do more investigat...
"The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand m...
Totally dug this book. I'm liking the Henrie O murder mysteries...these books keep you guessing on who the culprit is. Not like some books where it's just totally obvious who did and what is going to happen next. Unlike the Death on Demand mysteries, I enjoy Henrie O's character very much. In Sca...
This book was going to be a strictly read at lunch sort of book. I didn't plan on taking it home and finishing it up. This book was just a pleasant surprise. First of all, I asked a sub what he was reading and he told me that it was this book and he was almost finished with it. Would I like it? D...
Annie Darling, owner of Death on Demand Mystery Bookstore, Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, is planning a book signing for mystery writer Emma Clyde, but several of her promotions are sabotaged by a prankster. Then a teacher and one of her students are murdered, and the boneheaded police ch...
Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins no longer chases hot stories all over the world, but murderous mysteries seem to find her. This time, a frantic phone call from an old and dear friend on the other side of the world sends Henrie O rushing to the fabled city of San Anton...
Serena Mallory was attracted to Jed Shelton the first day he walked up the road to Castle Rock. But who was he? Had he really arrived at the ranch by accident? One odd incident after another deepened her suspicions. And she knew, after Uncle Dan's tragic death, that something was terribly wrong a...
I would like to preface this by saying that it was an enjoyable enough read and I kept going to see what would happen next. The story flowed well. However, I felt the whole time that this book didn't have an editor. There is almost no versatility in the author's word choice. Every other page appe...
Resort to Murder by Carolyn Hart is 6th in Henrie O series and the first one I've read. I enjoyed it-a quick, easy read with prose that flows and characters that are easy to watch and relate to. The situation-the marriage of two older people whose children are opposed to the event-is not new but ...
Annie Darling, popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, has done it again! Her murder-mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is sure to be a roaring success, with every participant dressing up as a favorite fictional sleuth. And sure enough, e...
Annie Darling discovers the secret of the Franklin house, but Death Walked In . . . Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and says she is afraid. The ...
Romantic suspense amid the chaos of a world at war. The year is 1940. As England braces for invasion and the German army overruns Europe, two American sisters in Paris risk their lives to save a downed British airman from Nazi arrest. Linda Rossiter and Eleanor Masson soon realize the price they ...
Glenwood Apartments was a two-story stacked stone structure with several fountains and a statue of a bronze deer. Deck chairs surrounded a sparkling pool in the interior grounds. Unit 22 was on the ground floor in the north wing. I concentrated on geography and placed the ...
Bobby Mac would be impressed when I told him. The activity under way was as taut with suspense as any battle with a tarpon. Brilliant spotlights arranged in a square illuminated Daryl Murdoch’s resting place. Yellow tape fluttered from poles jammed into the ground. A slender man in a French-blue ...
A casual observer would never suspect the purse had been moved since Marian placed it there. Nela opened the purse and fished out the necklace. The diamonds glistened in the living room light. Nela dropped the necklace into a clear quart-size plastic bag and placed the bag also on the bookcase. T...
Annie Darling shivered as she sloshed through puddles. Usually she stopped to admire boats in the marina, everything from majestic ocean-going yachts to jaunty Sunfish. On this February day, she kept her head ducked under her umbrella and didn’t spare a glance at gray water flecked with white cap...
Heaven knows that where you wish to go, there you are. It might surprise you that a rough-and-tumble oilman like Bobby Mac knew his way around art museums on earth. His tastes—and mine—were eclectic, from Gustav Vigeland’s sculptures to Mary Cassatt’s Breakfast in Bed. It was Heavenly now to see ...
Annie hurried past a couple of untenanted desks; smiled a greeting at the matronly white-haired woman who managed the Life section and knew every birth, death, and scandal in between on the island; and headed toward a far corner and an old wooden desk mounded with papers. ...
“That’s good.” Henny stepped forward. She set a black cardboard poster in the center of the table. A white sheet was pasted in the center of the poster. Henny read aloud: HONORED SPIRIT Iris Tilford Iris was slender with soft brown hair and brown eyes. She was kind and gentle. Iris struggled in s...
Annie found an empty space at the end of the third row. She could easily have walked over to the inn. Their house was only a half mile distant on a path that wound through a thick forest of live oaks, slash pine, bayberry, ferns, and saw palmettos. The night forest was cheerful, crickets and cica...
Cheeks red from the cold, Keith ran as fast as he could across the front yard of Pritchard House. He skidded around a big sycamore and pressed against the trunk. “…eight, nine, ten. Okay, Colin, you can look around now. See if you can find Keith.” A skinny dark-haired boy about seven years old dr...
I would be delighted when the gray dress was only a memory. I knocked firmly on the door. Tom Baker opened the door, looked apprehensive. I flashed the black leather folder. “It’s time we talked, Mr. Baker.” His young face wa...