Dare to Die (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 19): A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries Series)

"Filled with quirky, witty, and down-to-earth characters ... It is a joy." -- Tulsa World Death is the uninvited guest at a Broward's Rock gala thrown by bookstore owners and sometime sleuths Annie and Max Darling in Dare to Die -- the 19 th captivating whodunit in Caroline Hart's much adored Death on Demand series. A Grande Dame of mystery, Hart's wonderfully evocative, multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning novels will delight Diane Mott Davidson and Lillian Jackson Braun fans -- and Dare to Die is a wonderful display of the skill and imagination that moved a Los Angeles Times reviewer to declare, "If I were teaching a course on how to write a mystery, I would make Carolyn Hart required reading." She came in the rain. Alone. On a bicycle.Annie and Max Darling are completely unprepared when the arrival of a mysterious young woman shocks their sea island and stirs up more than just gossip.It turns out that Iris, the beautiful stranger, is a former resident of Broward's Rock. Her arrival throws the normally happy town into a downward spiral that pits neighbor against neighbor.Things take a turn for the worse when Annie befriends Iris and invites her to attend the Darlings' party at the pavilion where Death is the uninvited guest. Suddenly, Max and Annie find themselves in the middle of a fight they don't understand and at the mercy of an unknown assailant who's trying to kill them — and all they know is that it is one of their friends. A mysterious young woman returns to the island to make amends, but a ruthless killer fears she will recall one long ago, foggy night.