It's "Corpse ahoy!" when death takes a pleasure cruise-as we set sail once more with that incomparable, crime-solving duo, the Darlings.

The fifth in a series featuring bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Annie Laurence Darling ( Death on Demand ), this tale is long on literary allusions but short on momentum. Invited to teach a class on mystery novels, offered for some strange reason in the journalism, rather than the English department of a local college, Annie finds that university politics become grist for the school's paper. Student editor Brad Kelly's expose of a professor's embezzlement,...

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins receives a call for help from her long-ago lover, finding herself on an island with a dead man and ten possible murderers.

Annie and Max thought they could spend a quiet Fourth of July holiday together at the town picnic, but when the head of the library board is killed, everyone in town is a suspect, and it's up to Annie and Max to solve the mystery.

Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of woman wives hate--for good reason--and most of them wish...

"Bailey Ruth loves to return to earth as an emissary from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions. Problem is, she's a bit of a loose cannon as far as ghosts go--forgetting to remain invisible, alarming earthly creatures--so she's far from the top of department head Wiggins's go-to list for assignments. That's why she's surprised when the Heaven-sent Rescue Express drops her off at a frame house on the outskirts of her old hometown, Adelaide, Oklahoma,...

Annie Darling owner of the mystery bookstore prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward2s Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is murdered. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide, the doctor2s sister turns to Annie and her husband, Max, for help.

Love is in the air, but so is murder. At the South Carolina Low Country island of Broward's Rock the delightful married sleuths, the Darlings, go on separate trails to find a killer.