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"If I were teaching a course on how to write a mystery, I'd make Carolyn Hart required reading."
-- Los Angeles Times
Author Notes
Carolyn G. Hart is the author of eight award-winning Death on Demand mysteries and four Henrie O mysteries. The first writer to win all three major mystery awards--the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity--for her novels, Hart is the former president of the organization Sisters in Crime.
Hart's first novel in her mystery series, entitled Death on Demand, focuses on prime murder suspect Annie Laurance Darling and her attempt to clear her tarnished name. Some of the other novels in the series include Something Wicked, winner of the Agatha Award in 1988 and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989, Design for Murder, and Honeymoon with Murder, which won the Anthony Award in 1990. Letter From Home also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2003.
Her latest novel is entitled, The Devereaux Legacy. (Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Introduced in Agatha-winner Hart's Ghost at Work (2008), the late Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns to earth on a heavenly mission to help a four-year-old orphan in this delightful sequel. Susan Flynn, the matriarch of one of the leading families of Adelaide, Okla., who's dying from congestive heart failure, discovers she has a grandson after Keith, the child of Susan's soldier son killed in Iraq, shows up at her door one day not long before Christmas. Susan's decision to change her will to leave her estate to Keith causes one of her many greedy relatives to ignore the message of the Christmas season. When murder and mayhem ensue, Hart's ghostly detective gets on the track of a clever killer. Bailey Ruth's pleasure in her earthly wardrobe, her keen observations of the other characters and her unorthodox but expert sleuthing will engage readers from start to finish. Hart is also the author of the Death on Demand series (Dare to Die, etc.). (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Ghost (or emissary) Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns for her second adventure.This time she is somewhat more aware of the emissary precepts and tries hard to obey them. But before long things start to spiral out of control, and off she goes meddling, protecting, and doing the right thing the wrong way. Once again she is trying to help a child in jeopardy. An orphan is dropped off unexpectedly at his grandmother's home at Christmas. The thing is, nobody in the family even knew of his existence before, and a number of relatives have been cozying up to his rich but ailing grandmother, expecting a big payday. Bailey Ruth assumes that her job is to protect the boy, which she does at the expense of the grandmother, who then dies prematurely. Once she realizes her mistake, Bailey Ruth makes sure that police in Adelaide, Oklahoma, know they have a murder on their hands, and she prompts them with clues only a ghost would know. Good fun for paranormal mystery fans.--Coon, Judy Copyright 2009 Booklist
Kirkus Review
After all the trouble a redheaded ghost ran into on her first mission for Heaven's Department of Good Intentions (Ghost at Work, 2008), can she do better the second time around? Bailey Ruth Raeburnthat is, her spiritis sent to her hometown of Adelaide, Okla., to protect young Keith Flynn. Left on his wealthy grandmother Susan Flynn's doorstep, he's become a magnet for trouble. His father Mitch vanished after accidentally killing his sister in a car accident. Mitch entered the military and was killed in action before his family had any idea he had married or had a child. Now Susan's plans to change her will have upset the original beneficiaries. When she dies before she can sign the new will, Bailey Ruth ignores the rules, moves her body to suggest murder and sees that Susan writes a holograph will and has it witnessed before passing over. Once it's clear that digitalis in her cocoa, not her illness, did Susan in, the police look among some of the town's leading citizens for the culprit. When the new will doesn't turn up and the secretary of Susan's lawyer becomes the next victim, the invisible Bailey Ruth takes to writing clues on the police chief's chalkboard and even materializes against the orders of her long-suffering boss in an effort to solve the crime. Irrepressible Bailey Ruth's sophomore entry is a lighthearted tale, with the murders upstaged by the joys of the Christmas season. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Library Journal Review
The second entry (after Ghost at Work) in Hart's new supernatural series. When wealthy widow Susan Flynn discovers that she has a grandson, she decides to change her will. Unfortunately, another beneficiary objects, and ghost Bailey Ruth Raeburn is sent down from Heaven to defend the boy. A cute and cozy mystery suitable for most collections. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ 7/09.] (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
