Carolyn Hart

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....

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....

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....

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....

When you wish upon a star, you get...Bailey Ruth? You do if you're a little girl whose mom needs help and you touch the soft heart of Supervisor Wiggins at Heaven's Department of Good Intentions....

Intrigue and foul play are no strangers to the idyllic South Carolina sea island of Broward's Rock....

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

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

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

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....

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....

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

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....

Annie and Max Darling are completely unprepared when the arrival of a mysterious young woman shocks their sea island and stirs up more than just gossip....

Annie can hardly believe it: The police say her husband, Max, sits behind bars....

The Women's Club prides itself on the success of its annual White Elephant Sale, but this year's sale is marred by a bizarre turn....

A frantic phone call from an old and dear friend sends Henrie O to San Antonio, Texas, in search of her friend's granddaughter, Iris Chavez.....

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....