In the Death on Demand series, I especially enjoy writing about Annie Darling's ditzy mother-in-law, Laurel Roethke. I love to have fun when writing a mystery. Max plunges deep into the woods to find incriminating evidence.Īnnie sets the perfect trap for a merciless killer, but her cell phone rings and Death is on the line. Max is unconvinced until Annie follows a trail behind the dead woman's house.Īnnie unravels the mystery of a towel hidden at midnight in a gazebo, the interesting lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a teenager's blue shirt, and the secret of a lovers' tryst. She lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.'ĭEAD BY MIDNIGHT by Carolyn Hart On Sale March 29 She is one of the founders of Sisters in Crime, an organization for women who write mysteries. Her latest book is Dead by Midnight (William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2007). Letter from Home (2003), her standalone mystery set in Oklahoma, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards.

From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer - waiting to strike again!Īn accomplished master of mystery with 46 published books, Carolyn Hart is the creator of the highly acclaimed Henrie O,Death on Demand, and Bailey Ruth Raeburn series.

Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery - Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic - learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. 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 to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty. 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.

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