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Death Walked In: A Death on Demand Mystery [Mass Market Paperback]

Carolyn Hart (Author)
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Publication Date: Mar 17 2009 | Series: Death on Demand Mysteries

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 antebellum house Max and his wife, Annie, are restoring. When Annie finds out, she hurries to the woman's home, only to discover she's been murdered. Evidence links the dead woman to a fortune in gold coins that has recently gone missing. Was this mysterious woman killed for a fortune in coins?

The dead woman's son is accused but Max believes in his innocence, and Max and Annie plunge wholeheartedly into the investigation. Are the coins hidden in Annie and Max's house? The intruder who shoots at Max seems to think so. And when Annie discovers the secret of their old house, death arrives at their door.

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From Publishers Weekly

Annie Darling, proprietor of Death on Demand, the finest mystery bookstore north of Miami, once again proves a resourceful sleuth in Hart's scintillating 18th Death on Demand mystery set in the South Carolina island community of Broward's Rock (after 2006's Dead Days of Summer). When Annie's devoted PI husband, Max, who's busy renovating historic Franklin House, puts off returning a frantic phone call from a prospective client, Annie later discovers the caller, Gwen Jamison, dying of a gunshot wound in Gwen's house. It appears Gwen wanted to tell Max that after finding on her property eight gold coins worth nearly $2 million that were recently stolen from Gwen's employer, island civic leader Geoffrey Grant, she had hidden the coins at Franklin House. When Gwen's dropout son, Robert, is implicated in both the theft and the murder, Max believes Robert's been framed and works to clear his name. This tight, Agatha Christie–style puzzler will keep readers guessing to the end. (Apr.)
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About the Author

An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, featuring a retired reporter, and the Bailey Ruth series, starring an impetuous, redheaded ghost. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Sea air and oyster shells Nov 8 2008
By Linda Pagliuco - Published on Amazon.com
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Browards' Rock, a South Carolina Low Country island, is home to Max and Annie Darling and a winter community of residents whose paths, by necessity or choice, often cross. So the islanders are understandably shaken when a stash of rare and valuable gold coins is stolen from one of the wealthier families. Following upon the heels of this crime are a series of home invasions and, most shocking of all, a cold blooded murder. The Darlings are determined to find the true culprit.

Death Walked In is a rather prosaic title for such a colorful story, but as it turns out, this mystery isn't much more than ordinary. Hart is a competent writer, but the herrings are so red that the question of whodunnit does not remain mysterious for long. Nevertheless, with all the oyster shell walks, snakes in the woods, ferries, palmettos, and salty sea air, she does a creditable job of evoking a pleasant atmosphere while providing an agreeable few hours of light reading.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Missing coins lead to murder Jun 3 2008
By Karen Potts - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Carolyn Hart is back with another book in the Death on Demand Mystery series. Annie Darling, owner of "the best bookstore north of Miami", and her husband Max live on Broward's Rock, a beautiful fictitious island off the coast of South Carolina. They are refurbishing the lovely old Franklin house which becomes a pivotal part in the mystery. First some very valuable coins are stolen and then Annie receives a panicky call from Max's secretary who says that a woman called and said that she hid something valuable in the Franklin house. This is the beginning of a trail of murder and deception, as Annie and Max try to find the perpetrators while dodging some dangerous situations themselves. The devoted Darlings are the center of a group of interesting characters, and Carolyn Hart never fails to entertain mystery fans with her "closed room" technique, borrowed from Agatha Christie.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars exciting investigative tale April 12 2008
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
February in Broward's Rock, a South Carolina sea island is supposed to be quiet and relatively crime free now that the tourists have gone home. However business mogul Geoffrey Grant had much of his coin collection stolen and the appraised value was over half a million dollars. Max Darling, who almost got convicted for murder by a damsel in distress who elaborately framed him, got a call from a woman who needs help at his office Confidential Commissions.

He refuses to take the call and comes to regret it when wife Anne goes to see the caller Gwen Jamison. Max's assistant called Anne and told her that Gwen put something in the Franklin House which Max and Anne are rebuilding and where Gwen was once the housekeeper. When Anne goes to Gwen's home she finds her dead body on the floor. A woman calls Anne who goes to the dock at night to meet her; the woman tells her she knows who stole the coins because she saw the person bury the cache at her graveyard. Two more deaths follow over the next few days causing Max and Anne to investigate, not aware the killer is watching them.

DEATH WALKED IN is an exciting investigative tale with a husband and wife team as the main protagonists. They are the reason the Death On Demand series is popular as their team-up smoothly blends amateur sleuth and professional detective elements and they are bold enough to follow the clues wherever they may lead. The romance has not gone out of their marriage and is interwoven into the storyline. Carolyn Hart has written a charming and well constructed mystery that her fans will appreciate.

Harriet Klausner

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