April fool dead

By Carolyn G. Hart

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

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!