New Releases by carolyn g. hart

Annie stages a Mystery Night for the annual antebellum house tour of the Historical Preservation Society of Chastain, South Carolina. When the grand dame is murdered, Annie is the prime suspect. Max Darling, Annie''s fiance pieces together evidence and finds a witness to clear her name--but then the witness is murdered.

Henrie O, retired Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, travels to Bermuda to accompany her grandchildren to their father''s wedding and ends up trying to unmask the restless spirit supposedly haunting the hotel.

Annie and Max Darling work to clear their friend of the murder of a woman who had been blackmailing several members of their community.

On a mist-shrouded private school campus in Southern California, ex-reporter and new teacher Ann Farrell finds the body of a student sprawled among the rocks at the bottom of a barranca. Did the victim write the ugly poison pen notes sent recently to several faculty members, including Ann? Did the notes lead to his murder? Ann Farrell doesn''t think so. Determinedly, Ann starts asking questions. She gets some shocking answers, and ultimately faces a deadly encounter with a ruthless and calculating killer.

A chilling message is delivered to sexagenarian sleuth Henrietta O''Dwyer claiming that her beloved late husband''s death six years ago was no accident.--

A frantic phone call from an old friend sends sixty-something sleuth Henrie O to San Antonio, Texas, in search of her friend''s granddaughter, Iris Chavez. Iris had been working on San Antonio''s famous River Walk at the Tesoros Gallery, a shop renowned for its unquestioned integrity, excellence, and priceless treasures. Iris has disappeared without a word and hasn''t been heard from since. And nobody at Tesoros seems to care. Hidden amid the exquisite objects in the gallery and among the many family members who run the business is a secret -- a secret Henrie O must uncover if she is to find Iris. Interviews with the charming matriarch, Maria Elena Garza, who created the business decades earlier, and with her children and grandchildren reveal nothing. When an unsigned note summons Henrie O to the River Walk, she is stunned by what she finds. An ominous threat, followed by a horrifying murder, convinces her that Iris is in terrible danger. Disgrace lies in wait for an old and respected business...and death waits for anyone who gets in the way.

Although "Dr. Ellen Christie, an anthropologist, knows San Francisco can be a dangerous city," she agrees to follow a stranger in a "desperate hunt that leads through the darkest byways of Chinatown."--Cover.

Attorney K.C. Carlisle lives and works as a storefront lawyer in an exclusive northern California seaside town. When her lawyer cousin Kenneth is arrested on a murder charge and other family members are implicated, K.C. plunges into a search for the killer -- even thought the investigation may destroy her late father''s good reputation. K.C. faces some ghosts from her past as she attempts to bring the real criminal to justice.

Catherine Cavanaugh was the beautiful wife of an ambitious American diplomat - a woman who denied her passions and hid her regrets. Jack Maguire was a brash reporter who lived by his wits and broke all the rules. In a moment, their lives touched and a dangerous love was born. From bomb-shattered London to the besieged Philippines, Catherine and Jack were caught in the sweeping tides of war. Finally, Catherine was forced to make a choice between keeping her love trapped inside her forever, or embracing the joy meant for only for brave hearts...

Even though her own heart was breaking, Coley could still derive great pleasure watching the angry scowl on Jason''s face as she mocked him about his plans to have her for his wife. How upsetting for him and his plans for the Slash S ranch that Coley wasn''t falling into his arms as he had expected her to. But how long could Coley maintain her distance from this arrogant man who made her heart race?

A collection of short stories, most sharing a common theme - relationships gone awry and women sleuths who want to know why.

When ambitious, abrasive Maggie Winslow announces her intentions to investigate a trio of unsolved local crimes, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter-turned-journalism teacher, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins, urges her talented student to pursue the story with uncommon vigor. But when Maggie''s corpse is discovered the next day in Lovers'' Lane--the site of one of the crimes the budding reporter was exploring--the guilt-stricken, sixty-something sleuth vows to get to the bottom of Maggie''s murder, even if it means dredging up a past everyone seems to want to keep buried and placing herself firmly in a relentless killer''s path. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

“Cheers for Henrie O, an intelligent, engaging sleuth!”—Mary Higgins Clark Henrie O is looking forward to a quiet holiday. Instead, the ex-journalist turned sleuth awakens in a Tennessee mountain cabin to discover her friend’s nephew, his shirt stained with blood, his handsome face stricken by fear and horror. Craig Matthews swears he didn’t kill his wife, swears he didn’t lure Patty Kay out to the playhouse of their lavish Fair Haven estate and leave her bloodied and dead. Why, then did he run away? It’s a question that draws Henrie O into the thick of a life-and-death drama, into the lives of Fair Haven’s best families, and into a world where wealth and privilege mask a hotbed of sex, lies, and desperation. Only when Henrie O begins to question the motives of the bereaved widower, the sullen nymphet of a daughter, the irresistible ex-husband, the venomous sister, even the ingratiating schoolmaster of the exclusive school where Patty Kay was a trustee, does the truth start to emerge. But when another corpse turns up, Henrie O knows time is running out. Now she must untangle this deadly web—or become the next victim of a mind bent on murder.

A husband and wife team of bookworm-sleuths, Annie and Max Darling, investigate a murder at a book festival

Carolyn G. Hart, Agatha Award-winning author of over nine critically acclaimed mystery novels, hosts an urbane gathering of today''s A-list of mystery writers in this all-new collection. Superbly toasting Agatha Christie, the world''s most beloved crime writer, this book presents traditional mystery stories at their wicked, magnificent best.

Arrogant media magnate Chase Prescott calls Henrietta O''Dwyer Collins for help when an attempt is made on his life. When she arrives at Prescott''s opulent house on his private island, Henrie O encounters a lethal collection of suspects.

At a convention honoring the centenary of the birth of Agatha Christie, a much-hated mystery critic threatens to reveal long-hidden secrets about Christie''s life and work, but not before two convention attendees are murdered, and Christie fan Carolyn Hart

FICTION-MYSTERY/DETECTIVE

When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain''s hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain''s faculty. A Dangerous Thing Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery -- Annie''s pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic -- learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer -- waiting to strike again!

Annie Laurance, the lovely, young owner of the "Death on Demand" bookstore, and her wealthy lover, Max Darling, search for a killer after author Elliot Morgan is murdered during a meeting of famous mystery writers.

A young American girl stranded in Paris when the Germans arrive in 1940, Linda Rossiter joins the French Resistance and falls in love with a wounded R.A.F. pilot she meets through the underground

On a business trip to London, a former wartime undercover agent realizes that someone from her past is trying to harm her.