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Death on demand volume 20
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Three deaths are linked to Broward's Rock Island's youth recreation center, and its director. When she asks Max to help clear her name, Annie is right there with her husband to help.
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Death on demand volume 21
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Refusing to believe that a local death was a suicide, mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling investigates a series of clues including a hidden towel, a lack of fingerprints on a crystal mug, and a lovers' tryst.
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Death on demand volume 24
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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,...
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Death on demand volume 25
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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....
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Death on demand volume 17
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Bookstore owner Annie Darling goes undercover to pursue a clever killer who has framed her husband Max for murder, when Max mysteriously vanishes en route home and his car is found near the body of a beautiful young woman.
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Death on demand volume 22
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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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Death on demand volume 7
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When Neil Bledsoe, publishing's most despised critic and a guest at a party for the late Agatha Christie's birthday, announces his intentions to pen a scurrilous bio of Christie, Annie Darling is soon working overtime to prevent Bledsoe's murder.
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Death on demand volume 4
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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 rush to the scene of the crime only to discover that Ingrid Jones, Annie's bookstore assistant, has vanished, leaving the body of a neighborhood...
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Death on demand volume 14
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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 bash for an important new collection, she plans to announce her engagement to a much younger man. But then murder crashes the party, and Max is called in to investigate while Annie takes matters...
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Death on demand volume 13
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To celebrate an April Fool's Day appearance by the island's most famous mystery author, Death on Demand bookstore owner Annie Darling creates a unique promotion-- a free book to anyone who can solve a series of clues about popular whodonits. But an April Fool prankster is distributing a counterfeit flyer, complete with not-so-fague accusations of murder. Annie, is out to find the culprit, but it's no laughing matter when murder is added to the mix....
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Death on demand volume 26
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"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,...
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Death on demand volume 12
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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. And, onetime movie star Marguerite Dumaney Ladson has called together all of her kin and exes for a gala celebration. Among the honored guests are Annie's deadbeat father and Dr. Emory Swanson, a New-Age-pseudo-occult charlatan. Right after the announcement that she's leaving her fortune to Swanson's...
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Death on demand volume 11
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Annie and Max Darling work to clear their friend of the murder of a woman who had been blackmailing several members of their community.
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Death on demand volume 16
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When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.
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Death on demand volume 15
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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.
16) Death on demand
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Death on demand volume 1
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Annie Laurance, owner of the Death on Deamand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, becomes the prime suspect when an author is murdered in her store
17) Death walked in
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Death on demand volume 18
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A fortune in gold coins stolen from a house filled with visiting family members lies at the root of this Max and Annie Darling mystery.
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Death on demand volume 5
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When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance conducts a class on Agatha Christie and other great female mystery writers, she finds that life sometimes imitates art.
19) Southern ghost
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Death on demand volume 8
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Down south to solve a missing person case the local police cannot crack, Annie and Max Darling discover that the secretive, aristocratic Tarrant family may be trying to cover up a forty-year-old murder.
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Death on demand volume 9
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The bookstore owner, Annie Darling, is chaperoning five authors at a book fair in North Carolina when a publisher announces he will write a book exposing the writers' darker side. When the publisher is poisoned, suspicion falls on Annie who now must turn sleuth to clear her name. By the author of Southern Ghost.