Annie Laurance, owner of the Death on Deamand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, becomes the prime suspect when an author is murdered in her store.

When her fellow charity shop volunteer Gretchen Burkholt is murdered, Dead on Demand Mystery shop owner Annie Darling enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager.

Sunny and placid Broward Rock is buzzing when a thief makes off with a million-dollar coin collection. But the theft is only the beginning of strange doings for bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Annie Darling and her PI husband, Max. William Morrow & Company

"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's 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 found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...

Bookstore owner and sometime sleuth Annie Darling and her adoring PI husband Max search for the truth behind a shocking "suicide" that rocks the idyllic (if somewhat homicide-prone) island of Broward's Rock.