num_pages: 320
description: Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she’s faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has vanished and Max is the prime suspect in an unspecified crime. The baffling, bloodstained trail leads straight to the doorstep of Tarrant House, home of the venerable Southern family with a violent history dating back to the Revolution—and ghosts of a far more recent vintage. Annie and Max find that the dignified façade of Tarrant House hides a hotbed of deadly passions as the family turns on itself in a mayhem of murderous motives and angry accusations. But in the end Annie must summon all her sleuthing skills to stop a desperate killer who is ready to strike again to keep the secrets that haunt the Tarrants from the light of day. . . .Praise for Southern Ghost “Tantalizing . . . keep[s] the reader guessing all the way.” —The Denver Post“Pleasing . . . chillingly effective…remarkably satisfying.” —Publishers Weekly“[Annie and Max] make one of the most attractive pairs of sleuths since Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles.” —Chicago Sun-Times
language: English
title: Southern Ghost
titlecomplete: Southern Ghost (Death on Demand, #8)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Amateur Sleuth, Southern, Halloween, Cats, Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1512
series: Death on Demand
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Bantam Crime Line