April fool dead

By Carolyn G. Hart

Subjects: South Carolina in fiction, Women detectives, South carolina, fiction, Women detectives in fiction, Fiction, Max Darling (Fictitious character), Booksellers and bookselling in fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Open Library Staff Picks, Large type books, Darling, max (fictitious character), fiction, Annie Laurance Darling (Fictitious character), Darling, annie laurance (fictitious character), fiction, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Booksellers and bookselling

Description: Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward's Rock body count starts mysteriously increasing. And now it's up to Annie to follow the well-hidden trail of the vicious trickster -- or a secret slayer's next lethal "joke" may very well be on her!