Death at the Door
by Carolyn Hart

Annie Darling—owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand—prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward’s Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband’s sculpting mallet.

Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor’s sister turns to Annie and her husband, Max, for help. She has found a cryptic sketch her brother drew, linking him with the murdered woman. Did someone want them both out of the picture?

With the police considering both cases as good as closed, it’s up to Annie and Max to sort through a rogues’ gallery of suspects to see if someone is trying to frame the artist. But if Annie isn’t careful, she may find herself having her own brush with death...

Other Books by Carolyn Hart

Ghost Ups Her Game
Bailey Ruth Ghost Book 9

Ghost on the Case
Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel Book 8

Ghost Wanted
A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel, Book 2

Ghost to the Rescue
A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel, Book 3

Death at the Door
A Death on Demand Bookstore Mystery #24

Don't Go Home
A Death on Demand Bookstore Mystery #25

Ghost Wanted
A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel #5

Ghost Gone Wild
A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel #4

Dead, White, and Blue
A Death on Demand Mystery #23

Cry in the Night

What the Cat Saw

Ghost Gone Wild
A Bailey Ruth Ghost Novel #4

Death Comes Silently
A Death on Demand Mystery #22

Dead, White, and Blue
A Death on Demand Mystery #23

Carolyn Hart's Bio

Photo credit: Robert H. Taylor, University of Oklahoma

Carolyn Hart was a child in Oklahoma during World War II. She drew on those memories to write her Agatha Award winning LETTER FROM HOME.

Hart's early memories of huge black headlines in the newspapers led her to major in journalism and work briefly as a reporter before turning to fiction. She is the author of 36 mysteries. In LETTER FROM HOME, she explores the impact of a crime on a small Oklahoma town in the summer of 1944 and on the life of 13-year-old Gretchen Gilman.

LETTER FROM HOME was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers and was named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly.

An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty-one 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.