April Idiot Useless (Demise on Demand Mysteries, No. 13)

Demise isn’t any joke on Broward’s Rock, although studying about lethal doings stays as fashionable a pastime as ever for residents of the stormy South Carolina sea island. Now, with spring newly sprung, Annie Darling has conceived of an ingenious promotional scheme to attract prospects into her Demise on Demand bookshop for the upcoming in-store look by world-class thriller creator Emma Clyde. Providing a free guide to anybody who can resolve a collection of clues about fashionable whodunits, Annie and hubby Max go out their flyers throughout city. However an April Idiot prankster is distributing a counterfeit flyer, supposedly devised by the Darlings, providing clues to a number of deadly native “accidents” which have occurred recently — together with the drowning of Ms. Clyde’s personal husband — full with not-so-vague accusations of homicide.

Immediately the Darling title is mud, because of the vicious slanders of an unknown counterfeiter. And Annie is aware of that she herself goes to must do the majority of the sleuthing — with the one intermittently efficient assist of Max–if she does not need this explicit April Idiot’s to final effectively previous Memorial Day.

Then, simply as issues could not appear to get any worse, they do. Within the wink of a bloodshot eye, Annie’s hunt for a malicious trickster has develop into a determined seek for a killer. As a result of now greater than her fame is at stake. If she will be able to’t rid her idyllic isle of a secret slayer, the malefactor’s subsequent murderous “joke” could also be on her!

Brimming with beautiful surprises, rapier wit, and fantastic suspense — boasting the creator’s trademark solid of uniquely unforgettable eccentrics — Carolyn Hart’s fortunate thirteenth Demise on Demand novel is an unmitigated delight, rating with the easiest of this, or any, modern cozy thriller collection. No foolin’!