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Denise's list on the best feel good mystery books
There are 26 books in the Death on Demand Mysteries series. The newest book is Walking on My Grave which came out in 2017.
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Design for Murder
When Annie Laurance is invited to stage a Mystery Night for the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina, she instead finds herself the leading lady in a flesh-and-blood drama. The play's the thing wherein the curtain falls on grande dame Corinne Webster. While fingers point…
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Something Wicked
Something Wicked
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Honeymoon With Murder
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the champagne goblets emptied, Max sweeps Annie into his…
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A Little Class on Murder
A Little Class on Murder
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Deadly Valentine
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The Christie Caper
The Christie Caper
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Southern Ghost
Southern Ghost
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Mint Julep Murder
Mint Julep Murder
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Yankee Doodle Dead
Yankee Doodle Dead
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White Elephant Dead
White Elephant Dead
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Sugarplum Dead
Carolyn Hart's Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning mystery series, Death on Demand, has long been a readers' favorite, with its richly evoked Southern atmosphere, ticklish wit, wildly eccentric characters, perplexing puzzles, and the most endearing pair of married sleuths since Nick and Nora Charles. Now the investigative efforts of Annie…
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April Fool Dead
April Fool Dead
Death is no joke on Broward's Rock, though reading about deadly doings remains as popular a pastime as ever for citizens of the stormy South Carolina sea island. Now, with spring newly sprung, Annie Darling has conceived of an ingenious promotional scheme to draw customers into her Death on Demand…
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Engaged to Die
Engaged to Die
Love is in the air -- but alas, so is murder -- as award-winning author Carolyn Hart returns once again to the South Carolina Low Country island of Broward's Rock and sets her delightful married sleuths, the Darlings, on separate trails to a killer.
Nothing warms the heart like romance…
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Murder Walks the Plank
Murder Walks the Plank
Annie Darling, popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, has done it again! Her murder-mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock…
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Death of the Party
The murder of an unloved media magnate maroons the crime-solving Darlings on a remote island with a killer in the latest Death on Demand delight from the incomparable Carolyn Hart.
Annie Darling is thrilled at the golden opportunity to visit Golden Silk, the luxurious private island estate of wealthy Jeremiah…
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Dead Days of Summer
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Death Walked In
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…
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Dare to Die
“Filled with quirky, witty, and down-to-earth characters….It is a joy.”
—Tulsa World
Death is the uninvited guest at a Broward’s Rock gala thrown by bookstore owners and sometime sleuths Annie and Max Darling in Dare to Die—the 19th captivating whodunit in Caroline Hart’s much adored Death on Demand series. A…
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Laughed 'Til He Died
“Carolyn Hart is one of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Return to Broward’s Rock in Laughed ’Til He Died, Carolyn Hart’s landmark 20th novel in her much loved and critically acclaimed Death on Demand mystery series. Island sleuths Annie and Max Darling must solve…
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Dead by Midnight
“If I were teaching a course on how to write a mystery, I would make Carolyn Hart required reading.”
—Los Angeles Times
“One of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Carolyn Hart is unstoppable—and her Death on Demand mystery series seems to get better with…
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Death Comes Silently
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Dead, White, and Blue
July is a hectic time for Annie and her husband, Max. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to…
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Death at the Door
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Don't Go Home
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Walking on My Grave
Annie s friend and fellow shop owner Ves Roundtree is a very wealthy woman. Her rich brother entrusted her…