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When wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville officially announces her engagement to Jake O'Neill -- her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé -- at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased. And before the last champagne bubble pops, murder disrupts the grand celebration. Bookstore owner Annie Darling has a vested interest in the investigation, and she's determined to untangle an unholy marriage of jealousy, blackmail, and malicious mischief, show more even if it means having to cross swords with hubby Max and cross paths with a cruelly clever stalker.. show less
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Wealthy Virginia Neville is throwing a party to announce her engagement to the much younger artist Jake O'Neill. A murder mars their engagement party and Annie Darling becomes involved when the assistant in her store, Chloe Martin, becomes a prime suspect. There is a sub plot involving a bad night manager at a retirement home. This subplot seems to only be there to add about fifty pages to the book and to add some drama to the ending. The ending seemed rushed and a good explanation of all the murders was not given. I enjoy Max and Annie Darling but this isn't the best entry in the series.
Readable and with some nice twists but it took forever to get into the story and I nearly abandoned it in disgust!
A cozy mystery. Nothing new, nothing to write home about...just a easy-reading cozy mystery.
This was good I am going to read more of the books she has written.
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Carolyn G. Hart is the author of eight award-winning Death on Demand mysteries and four Henrie O mysteries. The first writer to win all three major mystery awards--the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity--for her novels, Hart is the former president of the organization Sisters in Crime. Hart's first novel in her mystery series, entitled Death on show more Demand, focuses on prime murder suspect Annie Laurance Darling and her attempt to clear her tarnished name. Some of the other novels in the series include Something Wicked, winner of the Agatha Award in 1988 and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989, Design for Murder, and Honeymoon with Murder, which won the Anthony Award in 1990. Letter From Home also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2003. Her latest novel is entitled, The Devereaux Legacy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Engaged to Die
- Original publication date
- 2003
- People/Characters
- Annie Darling; Max Darling; Henny Brawley
- Important places
- Broward's Rock, South Carolina, USA
- First words
- "We always go to Saint Thomas in January."
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- Members
- 427
- Popularity
- 71,726
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (3.35)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 12
- ASINs
- 6
