Southern Ghost (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 8)

ISBN: 0553562754

Author: Hart, Carolyn G.

Condition: New

Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time shes faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has vanished and Max is the prime suspect in an unspecified crime. The baffling, bloodstained trail leads straight to the doorstep of Tarrant House, home of the venerable Southern family with a violent history dating back to the Revolution-and ghosts of a far more recent vintage.Annie and Max find that the dignified faade of Tarrant House hides a hotbed of deadly passions as the family turns on itself in a mayhem of murderous motives and angry accusations. But in the end Annie must summon all her sleuthing skills to stop a desperate killer who is ready to strike again to keep the secrets that haunt the Tarrants from the light of day. . . .Praise for Southern GhostTantalizing . . . keep[s] the reader guessing all the way.-The Denver PostPleasing . . . chillingly effectiveremarkably satisfying.-Publishers Weekly[Annie and Max] make one of the most attractive pairs of sleuths since Dashiell Hammetts Nick and Nora Charles.-Chicago Sun-Times