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Death Walked In (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 18) Mass Market Paperback – March 31, 2009

by Carolyn Hart (Author)
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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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  1. Book 18 of 26
    Death on Demand Mysteries
  2. Print length
    304 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Avon
  5. Publication date
    March 31, 2009
  6. Dimensions
    4.19 x 0.76 x 6.75 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    9780060724146
  8. ISBN-13
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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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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0060724145
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon; Reprint edition (March 31, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780060724146
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060724146
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.76 x 6.75 inches
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If you love Topper and Blithe Spirit, celebrate Christmas with It's a Wonderful Life, and live to laugh, please join the Late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, Heaven's irrepressible sleuth, on the Rescue Express October 1 In GHOST GONE WILD. Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help a scruffy but lovable 20-something-video-game inventor who has lots of money and just as many enemies. Bailey Ruth foils a shooting, but discovers her Heavenly supervisor has no idea she's on earth and this time she may never make it back to Heaven!

DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE is the 23rd in the Death on Demand series. Annie Darling insists a woman can't disappear without a trace but a sultry siren walks into the pines on the Fourth of July and no one has seen her since.

For more about Carolyn's books and comments, please visit her website at www.CarolynHart.com

Carolyn writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost.

Carolyn is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is mewly available this month from Seventh Street Books. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.

In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Ghost Gone Wild puts Bailey Ruth at risk of never returning to Heaven.

Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.

Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.

Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.

Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.

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Laurie Banton
5.0 out of 5 stars BUOY OH BUOY!
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2008
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In this classic mystery, with a South Carolina sea island backdrop, drama centers on the high-risk theft of precious gold coins, the tragedy of murder, and the price that evil must pay.

DEATH WALKED IN delivers all the twists, turns, and thrills that Carolyn Hart fans look forward to. Annie and Max are restoring an antebellum mansion. She is feminine . . . and strong. He is sophisticated . . . and compassionate. Annie says, "I wish our beautiful house wasn't part of a crime." Max comforts her, "Every old house has had its good days and its bad days. We're going to have good days. But we can't ignore trouble when we're right in the middle of it."

Even supporting characters leap off the page. I liked the high school principal who "knew his students, the ones who failed as well as those who succeeded, and he never stopped trying to reach the ones who needed help."

When 'Death Walked In' at the end of the mystery, the encounter was unforgettable.

This is the 18th book in the award-winning Death on Demand (bookstore) series--a treat for readers who appreciate fine literary writing that makes your heart race with suspense. Fun to read and the perfect solution for gift giving.

Laurie Banton, book reviewer, 04/25/08
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Sherrill O.
5.0 out of 5 stars Another good story
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2015
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As I have mentioned before, her books are always well plotted and fun to read. Still a lot of characters to keep track of.
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always looking
3.0 out of 5 stars Too obvious
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024
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I Knew where the gems were and who did it about page 25 or less. I still enjoyed the story. I like the characters
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Loves to Read
4.0 out of 5 stars But as an audio book it was fun.
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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I had not read any books by this author previously. I listened to it on CD and I'm not sure that I would have given precious reading time to it. But as an audio book it was fun.
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V. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars Great mystery!
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2009
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I love Carolyn Hart's books. I sent this one to my mom and she loved it and wanted more. She's 89 and reads almost a book a day. I'm always thrilled to find a writer she likes who has written a lot of books.
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Rita Woods
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2018
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Great book love all of Carolyn's books
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Cheryl M. Allam
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014
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This series is always entertaining and a great summer read.
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Jim Napier, mystery & crime fiction reviewer
3.0 out of 5 stars A gentle, entertaining tale
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2012
On Broward's Rock, an island off the coast of South Carolina, the tranquility of a small community is shattered when a woman is shot. She tells bookstore proprietor Annie Darling that she has hidden something of great importance in Annie's house, but before she can tell her what it is, or where, the woman dies.

When the woman is linked to a nearby home where a valuable collection of rare gold coins has gone missing, Annie and her husband Max focus on the family living there. There are plenty of grounds for suspicion: the dysfunctional family includes the most-recent, materialistic wife of the coin collector and a shiftless stepson who dropped out of college and is looking forward to his inheritance. There are other assorted ne'er-do-wells in the village as well, including the victim's troubled sons.

Lingering over the case is the question of what was hidden in Annie and Max's home, and where. A search of Annie and Max's home proves fruitless, but when Max surprises an intruder he is shot at for his trouble. There will be other attempts, and another death, capped by the proverbial gathering of suspects in a library, before more than one villain is unmasked.

Definitely at the cozy end of the spectrum, Carolyn Hart is often (and incorrectly) compared to Agatha Christie. But in Christie's novels the puzzle element is always front and center, and the clues not just cleverly, but fiendishly, concealed. In Hart's novels, in contrast, character and setting are uppermost. A more apt comparison to Carolyn Hart's novels would be the Botswana-based stories of Alexander McCall Smith: in both, the puzzle element is secondary and the moral setting takes on a life of its own--a gentle, civilized world of mostly virtuous people where the natural order has been upset, but which will be restored. As with McCall Smith's novels. Carolyn Hart's readers can be sure that, in the end, justice will prevail.

Death Walked In is exactly what it purports to be: a leisurely-paced, gentle tale involving a pair of amiable amateur sleuths up against an equally-amateur criminal in an engaging if somewhat idealized setting. When asked about the underlying symbolism latent in everyday objects, Freud is reputed to have said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." With Carolyn Hart's novels the reader in search of a pleasant, entertaining read will not be disappointed. It is what it is; nothing more, nothing less.

--Jim Napier, Professional crime fiction reviewer and creator of the award-winning website [...]
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