Murder Walks the Plank
by Carolyn Hart

It's "Corpse ahoy!" when death takes a pleasure cruise -- as we set sail once more with that incomparable, crime- solving duo, the Darlings. Annie Darling, popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore, has done it again! Her murder-mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is sure to be a roaring success, with every participant dressing up as a favorite fictional sleuth. And sure enough, everything goes swimmingly -- until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max Darling's courageous rescue attempt, faux murder turns all too quickly into real-life death. Over the next few days, the body count rises and Annie strongly suspects that all the victims were murdered most foully and that they are all connected in some unknown way. The trick now will be to prove it, with the able assistance of investigator-spouse Max, best friend and best customer Henny Brawley, local bestselling superstar Emma Lloyd, and even (surprise!) Annie's normally ditsy mother-in-law, Laurel. But what the intrepid crime solvers do not realize is that the killer they seek is more ingeniously efficient than most -- and the puzzle they wish to solve is, in reality, a time bomb packed with an explosive mix of arson, assault, kidnapping, robbery . . . and homicide, of course. One false step and Annie and her canny cohorts will be blown off Broward's Rock for good . . . and they'll sink like stones into the cold, briny deep.

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

Death at the Door
A Death on Demand Mystery #24

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

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.