Laughed 'til he died : a death on demand mystery

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Label

Laughed 'til he died : a death on demand mystery

Title remainder

a death on demand mystery

Statement of responsibility

Carolyn G. Hart

Title variation

Laughed until he died

Creator

• trueHart, Carolyn G

Subject

• Women detectives -- South Carolina -- Fiction
• trueWomen amateur detectives -- South Carolina
• South Carolina -- Fiction
• trueSouth Carolina
• trueMurder suspects -- South Carolina
• trueMurder investigation -- South Carolina
• trueBooksellers -- South Carolina
• Booksellers and bookselling -- Fiction
• trueCommunity centers
• trueDarling, Annie Laurance (Fictitious character)
• Darling, Annie Laurance (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• trueDarling, Max (Fictitious character)
• Darling, Max (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery stories
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Islands -- South Carolina -- Fiction

Genre

• Detective and mystery stories
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Three deaths are linked to Broward's Rock Island's youth recreation center, and its director. When she asks Max to help clear her name, Annie is right there with her husband to help

Member of

• trueDeath on Demand mysteries

Tone

• trueUpbeat
• trueAmusing

Review

In Anthony-winner Hart's lively 20th Death on Demand mystery (after 2009's Dare to Die ), more than one death in Broward's Rock, S.C., engages Annie Darling and her husband, Max. First, Click Silvester, a black teenager who hung out at the Haven, a teen activity center, apparently falls to his death from a wooden viewing platform in the woods. Later, someone shoots obnoxious Haven board member Booth Wagner on stage during an outdoor evening benefit for the center. Many had motives for killing Booth, including his stepson, Tim Talbot, who feared and hated him; his wife, Neva, who's curiously unmoved by his death; his former mistress, Jean Hughes, who was terrified of being fired as the Haven's director and becomes police chief Billy Cameron's prime suspect. A group of local ladies, led by mystery writer Emma Clyde, assist Annie and Max in the hunt for the real killer. Well-developed characters and a complex, fast-moving plot make for a satisfying read. (Apr.) --Staff (Reviewed March 1, 2010) (Publishers Weekly, vol 257, issue 9, p38)

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Series statement

Death on Demand mysteries

Series volume

0020