Carolyn G Hart

"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,...

Bookshop owner Annie Laurance investigates when staged theatrical murders during the local amateur production of 'Arsenic and Old Lace' result in real corpses and her fiance Max is the prime suspect.

"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,...

In the aftermath of a million-dollar coin collection theft, bookstore owner Annie Darling and her private-investigator husband Max are further perplexed by a client's untimely murder in an antebellum home that the Darlings are restoring.

When her mother-in-law, Laurel, is accused of murder, Annie Darling sets out to prove Laurel's innocence on the murder charge but guilt in meddling in her daughter-in-law's life.

When Henrie O accompanies her grandchildren to Bermuda for the remarriage of their father to a wealthy widow, she begins an investigation into a mysterious ghost and two murders as she finds herself becoming the sole protector of her family.

In honor of Agatha Christie's 100th 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. The last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder.

A young woman is convinced she's living with a murderer among family members, lodgers, and ranch hands in New Mexico.

Catharine Cavanaugh is caught in a loveless marriage. Married to a British diplomat, she goes through the motions of playing the dutiful American wife in war- time London, while nightly German bombers bring terror and death to the city. Then she meets American war correspondent Jack Maguire and discovers hope and love again in the midst of desolation. But war soon comes between them. When Catharine and her husband are unexpectedly transferred to the...

Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. And her own museum gives her the perfect opportunity to see him again: a valuable Aztec manuscript needs to be returned to its rightful owners, the wealthy Ortega family. But things don't go as planned for Sheila south of the border. An anonymous note threatens...