Mystery Women Authors

Carolyn G Hart

Biography

Carolyn G. Hart is the author of many award-winning Death on Demand mysteries and several Henrie O mysteries. She is the first writer to win all three major mystery awards (the Agatha, the Anthony and the Macavity) for her novels. A former president of Sisters in Crime, she lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Phil. Her fourth Henrie O mystery, Death in Paradise, was published in April 1998.

Books

New Releases

Crime on her Mind (Five Star Mystery Series)

Published Feb 1999 (Hardcover)

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Flee From Her Mind (Five Star Mystery Series)

Published Nov 1998

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Yankee Doodle Dead (Death on Demand Series)

The peaceful tenor of life in Broward's Rock, South Carolina, is at risk with the arrival on the island of retired Brigadier General Bud Hatch, a reactionary bully who detests gays, blacks, and anything that smacks of liberalism. Annie Darling (Mint Julep Murder, 1995, etc.), amateur sleuth and owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, sees trouble ahead when Hatch, now on the library board, seeks to downplay the role of South Carolina women in the historical chronicle being prepared for the upcoming Fourth of July Festival. Hatch would like to see the departure of the library's competent director Ned Fisher, a gay man living with artist Toby Maguire. Neither is he happy with the complaisant president of the library board, Henry Brawley, or librarian Edith Cummings. When a hefty flowerpot falls from a library balcony and barely misses Hatch, he is quick to accuse Samuel Kinnon, a young black whose future is threatened by the
Hatch - s animus. There are others whose lives are roiled by Hatch's intrusion, but it all comes to a head on Festival Day when a gunshot ends his life and Samuel faces a murder charge. Annie and her husband Max work hard to prove Samuel - s innocence, homing in on answers that lie in the past - but the upshot is out of their hands. -- Copyright �1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Published 1998

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Death on River Walk (Henrie O Series)

Iris Chavez has been missing for a few days when her grandmother Gina Wilson, asked the fifty-something sleuth Henrie O to investigate. Gina and Henrie have been friends
forever and the sleuth has known Iris since she was a little girl. Gina explains that Iris always communicated either by phone or E-mail, but has not been heard from in a few days. Henrie heads to San Antonio where Iris works at a Garza family gallery renowned for their Mexican art collection. The amateur detective quickly learns that Iris abruptly fled from the gallery for no immediately apparent reason.

Henrie meets with members of the powerful Garza clan, headed by Maria Elena, who reluctantly encourages the sleuth to look into Iris’ relationship with Rick Garza, who ultimately takes her to the missing individual. However, Henrie concludes that
someone or something is terrorizing both of them. They know something, but refuse to divulge it, preferring to remain in hiding. Whatever the duo conceals, Henrie soon finds herself the target of the unidentified culprit(s).

Death on the River Walk is a vintage Henrie O mystery. The story line is entertaining, filled with heart, but no brain teaser. Instead, the novel, like the four previous books in this series, builds its charm around the characters. Particularly interesting is the compassionate but pragmatic Henrie O. The secondary cast, especially the villains, and the intriguing glimpses into the Central American-Southwest art world add depth to a warm, sassy tale. Anyone who relishes a pleasurable reading experience should try multi-award winning Carolyn Hart’s “Henrie O” and “Death on Demand” series. (Harriet Klausner)

Published 1999 (Not yet available)

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Annie and Max Darling Mysteries

Death on Demand

The prime suspect in the murder of author Elliot Morgan, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear her name.

Published Bantam 1987

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Design for Murder

Annie is asked to stage a murder for the annual spring house tour sponsored by the Historical Society of Chastain, South Carolina. Her only problem is deciding which fictional murder to stage--until a corpse turns up in the town pond.

Published Bantam 1988

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Something Wicked

Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane Petree, butchers his lines--while getting top billing in bed with wives and teenage daughters around town. No wonder somebody wants to draw his final curtain. 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. Unless Annie can prove her darling's innocence, their wedding date's off! Invoking the tried-and-true methods of her favorite literary sleuths, Annie snoops around the greasepaint and glitter of the show-stopper scene if she doesn't watch it, because theatrical murderers never play fair. (From the Publisher)

Published Bantam 1988

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Honeymoon with Murder

Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon!

Published Bantam 1989

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A Little Class on Murder

What better place for a murder than a college campus? When Annie Laurance teaches a course on the three great ladies of mystery--Christie, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, and Dorothy Sayers--she quickly learns that murder is a subject most academic!

Published Bantam 1989

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Deadly Valentine

Published Bantam 1991

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Southern Ghost

Down south to solve a missing person case the local police cannot crack, Annie and Max Darling discover that the secretive, aristocratic Tarrant family may be trying to cover up a forty-year-old murder.

Published Bantam 1993

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The Christie Caper

A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage: He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last. (From the Publisher)

Published Crime Line 1992

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Mint Julep Murder

Normally, Annie Laurence Darling would be eagerly awaiting her trip to Hilton Head Island, where this year's Dixie Book Festival is being held. But this year Annie has agreed to be the author liaison to five authors honored with the much-coveted Dixie Book Festival Medallions, and she fears she is going to have her hands full juggling murderous egos. What Annie doesn't count on is the untimely death of ambitious Mint Julep Press publisher Kenneth Hazlitt.

Hazlitt arrives at the Festival peddling a proposal for Song of the South, a trashy roman � clef that details the indiscretions of some famous Southern authors at a writers' conference--writers who more than resemble the Dixie Festival Medallion winners. When Hazlitt drops dead after drinking a hit of bourbon from his private stock, the evidence points to Annie--the fatal glass is imprinted with her fingerprints. As more and more evidence points her way, Annie and Max must act fast to catch a wily killer...before the police throw the book at Annie.

Published Bantam 1996

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Henrie O Mysteries

Dead Man's Island

Former journalist and amateur sleuth Henrie O is 60-ish, stylish, worldly and the uncompromising heroine of Hart's newest mystery series. A hurricane sweeps toward Chase Prescott's private island, marooning a host of lethal suspects and the one woman who can sort through them all: Prescott's former lover, retired newshound Henrietta O'Dwyer.

Published Bantam 1994

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Scandal in Fair Haven

When a bloodstained man breaks into her vacation cabin, Henrie O follows his trail to the community of Fair Haven, Tennessee, where she learns that even the most proper towns can be a sizzling cauldron of lethal secrets.

Published Fanfare 1995

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Death in Lover's Lane

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, known as Henrie O, is a retired Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has found new career rewards as a university professor. After a student who proposed an investigative report of three unsolved campus-related murders is found dead, Henrie O investigates--finding a tangled web of old secrets and deadly cover-ups.

Published Avon Books 1996

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Death in Paradise

Six years ago, Henrietta "Henrie O" O'Dwyer Collins' beloved husband, fellow newspaper reporter, Richard, fell to his death off of a cliff in the Hawaiian island of Kauai. When he died, Richard was visiting a close friend, the legendary foreign correspondent, Belle Ericcson, a woman he had bonded with in Nam during the war. Now Henrie O learns that her beloved spouse’s death was not an accident, but was apparently cold blooded murdered.

Henrie O is angry and wants vengeance on the perpetrator. She travels to Hawaii to visit Belle, who was her rival for her spouse's affections. She knows that the killer is at a family reunion being hosted on the woman's estate. No matter what she must do or who she must hurt in the process, Henrie O plans to complete her quest of identifying her husband's killer and bringing the individual to justice.

Published Avon Books (Hardcover) April 1998

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Other Mysteries

Dangerous Summer

Published 1968

No Easy Answers

Harper Collins 1970

Rendezvous in Veracruz

Published 1970

Danger! High Explosives

Published 1972

A Settling of Accounts

Doubleday 1976

Escape From Paris

St Martins Trade 1983

Short Stories

Crimes of the Heart

Fourteen of mystery's finest turn their attention to crimes of passion. Contributors include Dorothy Cannell, P.M. Carlson, Barbara D'Amato, Jeffrey Wilds Deaver, Susan Dunlap, Carolyn G. Hart, Joan Hess, Margaret Maron, Lia Matera, Sharyn McCrumb, and D.R. Meredith, among others.

Published Berkley 1995

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Malice Domestic 4: An Anthology of Traditional Mystery Stories

Pocket Books 1995

Non Mystery Books

The Deveraux Legacy

Harlequin Sales 1986

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