Get Cozy With These 15 Playful Carolyn Hart Books

Every week, a group of famous mystery writers gathers at Annie Laurance’s Death on Demand bookstore. 

But when one of the Sunday Night Regulars, author Elliott Morgan, suddenly dies, murder most foul is no longer confined to the bookshelves. 

When Annie becomes the prime suspect, she and her wealthy paramour, Max Darling, set off on their own to prove she’s innocent. 

Only solving the crime might be more dangerous than accepting her fate in prison. It just might kill her.

Bailey Ruth Raeburn isn’t going to let anything stop her from solving mysteries, including her own death. Especially when being a ghost has certain benefits. 

She can help with investigations, which is good because Kathleen, the pastor’s wife, can use it. She found a dead man on her porch, and her husband is the main suspect. 

And if Bailey has to break a few rules in the Department of Good Intentions to help Kathleen save her family, so be it. After all, that’s why she was sent to help. Now, she just has to figure out how.

Media magnate Chase Prescott is dying. He ate a box of cyanide-laced candy. But before he dies, he calls his ex-lover, newshound Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins. 

He wants her to find the killer. It’s her first case, but she agrees. When she arrives at his South Carolina island, all the suspects are there. 

There is no shortage of motives, but when she discovers a new will, she thinks she’s finally making progress. So, of course, a hurricane would hit, trapping them on the island. 

And when someone tries to kill Chase again, Henrie realizes that someone will do anything to keep their secrets safe.

After the death of her fiancé, Nela Farley can read the mind of her cat. She’s pretty sure it’s some weird side effect of grief until she agrees to help her sister while Chloe goes out of town. 

As she settles into the empty apartment her sister found, Nela stumbles on the previous tenant’s cat and gets a flash. The cat doesn’t think her death was an accident. 

When a second death puts her sister as the lead suspect, Nela decides that if this really is an ability, maybe she can use it to catch a killer. But she’d better hurry. Because she just might be next on the killer’s list.

Aspiring actress Kirsten Soderstrom hopes an ad in a Hollywood paper will lead to the role of a lifetime. She doesn’t expect a government agency to use her to catch a corrupt Senator. 

But a paycheck is a paycheck. And this will catch a criminal to boot. Falling in love with him was definitely not part of the plan. 

Even worse, whoever hired her wasn’t the US government. In over her head and surrounded by danger, Kirsten has to use all her wits and skills to get her and the Senator out of this mess alive.

Stuck in a loveless marriage, Camilla has long resigned herself to her life as a dutiful and respectable wife. Until she meets Marcus Julius Paulus, that is. 

He’s good and gentle and everything her husband is not. Still, she can’t bring scandal to her family. 

But when she discovers that her husband is planning on doing something despicable to gain favor with Emperor Caligula, Camilla knows she has to stop him. 

And when he realizes that she might leave, there’s nothing he won’t do to keep her family’s money and connections.

When Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay meets an attractive and outspoken curator in Mexico City who is critical of museums that have stolen art, she decides that a valuable Aztec manuscript in her own museum should be returned to its rightful owners. 

But when she gets to Mexico City to meet with the wealthy Ortega family, she gets a death threat. And then the curator brushes her off. 

It becomes obvious that Sheila has stumbled into something far bigger than a single manuscript. And if she isn’t careful, it just might kill her.

In the dusty summer of 1944, residents of a small town in Oklahoma were struggling to survive. 

Still reeling from the Great Depression and grieving the loss of their soldiers, rising tensions turned neighbors against each other. 

Now, G.G. Gilman is a world-renowned journalist. She tries not to think about the past. But when she gets a letter from home, suddenly, the past comes rushing back. 

As the memories come back, so does the truth of what happened all those years ago.

As anthropologist Ellen Christie is getting ready for a date, a knock on her door interrupts her plans. 

A stranger insists he has ancient remains that have been missing since 1941. But moments after she sees the bones, thugs show up, and Jimmy flees with the bones. 

Left with his handsome brother Dan, the two weave their way through Chinatown’s underground following in Jimmy’s wake. 

With criminals hot on their trail, Ellen has to face the possibility that her academic ambitions just might be the end of her.

Leah Devereaux has been assumed dead for nineteen years. Everyone on the plantation thought she died with her parents. But Leah is very much alive. 

And she’s ready to tell the story about what really happened to her parents. Some of her family welcome her back with open arms. Others wish she’d stayed away. 

When the Whispering Lady, a ghost of the plantation who hasn’t been seen in years, appears, some take it as an omen of death. 

Someone wants Leah to stay quiet. And they just might do anything to silence her permanently. 

Ex-journalist Ann Farrell took a teaching job at a private Friars Academy to help her cope with her traumatic past and find her footing in the future. 

When a student’s body is found sprawled on the rocks of a barranca, Ann can’t help but be curious about the case. Especially when she finds out he was looking for her right before he died. 

The student was writing blackmail notes to several faculty members, including Ann, threatening to reveal their secrets. Is this why he died? Or is Ann looking for a killer far more ruthless and calculating than anyone imagined?

As the German army devastates Europe in the fall of 1940, two American sisters stumble on a British airman. 

His plane was downed, and the Nazi’s are hunting him. Despite a notice that anyone caught harboring soldiers will be shot, they keep him safe. 

But when a trap is set on Christmas Eve, the sisters have to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo if they want to stay alive.

Kay Emory is just an antiques dealer in New Orleans. At least, that’s what she’d like people to believe. Better than having the truth of her wartime activities catch up to her. 

But that’s exactly what happens when she’s framed for a crime she didn’t commit. 

As she fights to clear her name, she scrambles to find out exactly which of her secrets have gotten out—and who would use them against her. 

There’s only one man she’s ever been afraid of. Has he returned from her past ready to make her pay?

Fifteen-year-old Nan Russell is about to head to Europe for the summer. Her parents are worried, but there’s nothing safer than a guided tour. 

But when Nan lands in New York City, she finds herself alone in a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and witnesses an event that puts her in the middle of a dangerous plot to kidnap her tour guide. 

Why would anyone want to kidnap a professor? And can Nan stop them before anything happens to either one of them?

Mexico City is a nice break before classes resume, but Maura Kelly was hoping for a bit more excitement. Even the boys are boring. 

Until she meets Luis. He’s charming, suave, and confident. Maura’s roommate doesn’t trust him. And when Maura lands in a bit of hot water, she has to admit that maybe her roommate was right. 

Sending cryptic messages to each other, the girls plan to meet in Veracruz. They just have to hope they make it before the people chasing Maura catch up with them.