If I were teaching a course on how to write a mystery, I would make Carolyn Hart required reading.
Los Angeles Times
One of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery (Cleveland Plain Dealer), Carolyn Hart is unstoppableand her Death on Demand mystery series seems to get better with every book. The proof? Dead by Midnight, once again featuring bookstore owner and sometime sleuth Annie Darling and her adoring p.i. husband Max. Their search for the truth behind a shocking suicide that rocks the idyllic (if somewhat homicide-prone) island of Browards Rock will make any mystery reader an instant fanjoining an ever-growing multitude that includes bestselling thriller author Robert Crais, who declares, Im a sucker for Carolyn Harts Annie and Max series.