Dead, White, and Blue
by Carolyn Hart

Bookstore owner Annie Darling’s life is all about murder mysteries: reading them, selling them—and solving them...

Summer is a hectic time for Annie and her husband, Max. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to their mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. Not to mention the whole island is buzzing with excitement over the upcoming Broward’s Rock Fourth of July dance.

Shell Hurst is the kind of woman wives hate—for good reason—and most of them wish she would just disappear. But when she does—last seen walking into the pine trees during the Fourth of July fireworks display—Annie can’t help but feel like someone should be looking for her.

Annie and Max are soon following a twisted trail marked by blackmail, betrayal, and adultery, winding from the corridors of the island’s lovely inn to a pier lashed by pelting rain, to a gathering on the terrace of a country club where a trap is set for a calculating killer...

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

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

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.