Deadly Valentine
A Death on Demand Mysteries: Book #6
- By: Carolyn Hart
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Description
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. She should have known better: True to form, Laurel accepted the invitation for all three of them. But the biggest surprise of all came at the party's end, when Annie found the amorous hostess in the gazebo--murdered.
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A Death on Demand Mysteries Series

Death on Demand
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 7 hours 1 minutes
Abridged: No
6th in Death on Demand series
At Annie Laurance's Death on Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder suddenly isn't confined to the well-stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of famous mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive that a bloody sword is... Read more »

Design For Murder
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Death on Demand Mystery series
Invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, Annie Laurance instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and blood drama. The play's the thing when the curtain falls on grande dame Corinne Webster. While jeweled... Read more »

Something Wicked
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his lines--while getting top billing in... Read more »
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Honeymoon with Murder
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
4th in Death On Demand series
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance, and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events threatens to unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. The ceremony is barely over when the phone rings and a woman on the other end of the line screams bloody murder! The newlyweds... Read more »

A Little Class on Murder
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
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,... Read more »
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Deadly Valentine
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
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.... Read more »
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The Christie Caper
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Southern Ghost
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Annie can hardly believe it. The police say her husband, Max, sits behind bars. They speak of him with a beautiful blonde. By the time Annie bails out Max, the blonde has disappeared and Max is the prime suspect in a crime.
The baffling, bloodstained trail leads to the home of the Tarrants, a venerable Southern family with a violent history... Read more »

Mint Julep Murder
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
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 Mint Julep Murder.
Normally, Annie Laurence Darling would be eagerly awaiting her trip to Head... Read more »

Sugarplum Dead
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Annie Darling's yuletide preparations have been put on hold because her mother-in-law, Laurel, has taken to chatting up ghosts in the local graveyard. Across Broward's Rock, onetime movie star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson has called together all of her kin and their exes for a gala celebration. Among the honored guests are Annie's father and Dr.... Read more »
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April Fool Dead
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
When seasonal mischief turns deadly, bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, must again close the book on a killer, in this delightful new whodunit from the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award–winning author.
Reading about deadly doings remains as popular a pastime as ever for citizens of stormy Broward’s Rock. Now, with spring newly... Read more »

Engaged to Die
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
At the Death on Demand Bookstore - "the best mystery bookstore east of Atlanta" - somebody always seems to turn up dead. In Hart's latest installment, charming owners Annie and Max Darling return to investigate a mysterious death at an art gallery opening on their South Carolina island. When heiress and gallery owner Virginia Neville hosts a... Read more »
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Murder Walks the Plank
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
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. As the body count begins to rise, Annie begins to suspect foul play.... Read more »
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Dead Days of Summer
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
“The doyenne of American cozies is working at the top of her form.”
–Margaret Maron
The murder of an exotic young woman brings crime too close for comfort
Murder hits close to home for Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling and her beloved husband, Max. While investigating a new case, Max calls Annie to let her know he may be late getting... Read more »

Dare to Die
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
She came in the rain. Alone. On a bicycle.
Annie and Max Darling are completely unprepared when the arrival of a mysterious young woman shocks their sea island and stirs up more than just gossip.
It turns out that Iris, the beautiful stranger, is a former resident of Broward's Rock. Her arrival throws the normally happy town into a downward... Read more »

Don't Go Home
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Death Comes Silently
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
National Bestselling Author and winner of multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards, Carolyn Hart continues to dazzle mystery fans with an all new Dead on Demand Mystery.
Winter has arrived in Broward's Rock, South Carolina, and business has slowed for Annie Darling, owner of mystery bookstore Death on Demand. So when the island's resident... Read more »
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Death Walked In
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
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 caller leaves word she’s hidden something in the... Read more »

Walking on My Grave
By: Carolyn Hart
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
In the latest Death on Demand Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Go Home, book seller Annie Darling learns murder and money go hand in hand...
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.... Read more »