Carolyn Hart

Normally, Annie Laurence Darling would be eagerly awaiting her trip to Head Island, where this year's Dixie Book Festival is being held....

Britt Barlow is certain her media mogul brother-in-law Jeremiah Addison's fatal tumble a year ago was no accident -- especially since she herself discovered, and disposed of, the trip wire someone had strung across the stairs.

Invited to stage a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, Annie Laurance instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and blood drama....

Being dead can't put a damper on spirited, holiday-loving Bailey Ruth Raeburn....

Max Darling hasn't been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom....

Annie and Max Darling watch the Fourth of July festival explode not only with fun and fireworks, but with murder as well....

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, known to her friends as Henrie O, is America's favorite ex-journalist turned sleuth....

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....

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....

Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to be on top of events....

Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball....

Chase Prescott, media magnate, is nearly killed by a box of cyanide candy....

When Bailey Ruth Raeburn passed over into the great beyond, she was delighted to discover her sleuthing days would last an eternity....

Bailey Ruth Raeburn's latest mission is to guide the happy-go-lucky spirit of a deceased young man named Jimmy to the next life. But Jimmy is determined to watch over his still-living girlfriend....

Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins receives a call for help from a former lover, who is now entangled with a wealthy, dysfunctional, and perhaps murderous family....

With a little help from Miss Marple, Poirot, and Agatha the Bookstore Cat, a pompous prosecutor tries to pin a murder on Max, Annie's own leading man....

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....

After a busy morning dispatching emissaries from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to those in need, Bailey Ruth Raeburn is feeling flush with success. So when an urgent call for help comes through from her old hometown, she can't resist taking on the mission herself....

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, better known as "Henrie O", has experienced much sadness and loss in her life - yet nothing more tragic the death six years ago of her husband, Richard, on Kauai....

Warm turquoise waters and balmy ocean breezes do little to ease Henrie O's discomfort....