An innocent woman faces arrest unless Annie and Max Darling solve three inter-locking puzzles: The pulled-out pant pockets of a murder victim, three guns that appear and disappear, and the whereabouts of a runaway teenager who may know too much.
Death On Demand #20
William Morrow
April 2010
On Sale: April 6, 2010
Featuring: Annie Darling; Max Darling
288 pages ISBN: 0061453099 EAN: 9780061453090 Hardcover Add to Wish List
A teenager well-liked at the island youth center dies in an accidental fall. A wealthy businessman booms with laughter at those around him until a shot rings out at the center's annual program. Max Darling suspects a connection between the two deaths. Another teenager is attacked. The center's director faces arrest which will separate her from her dying sister. Annie and Max Darling race against time to prove her innocence and scramble to solve three inter-locking puzzles: the pulled-out pant pockets of one victim, three guns that appear and disappear, and the disappearance of a teenager who may have seen too much.
Intrigue and foul play are no strangers to the idyllic South Carolina sea island of Broward's Rock. Mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, who specialize in solving problems, plunge into a startling web of danger and deceit when a trio of deaths is linked to the island's youth recreation center.
With the evidence mounting against her, the center's director seeks out Max to clear her name. When it comes to intrigue, where Max goes, Annie isn't far behind. To save an innocent woman, the pair scrambles to unravel three complex interlinked puzzles: the mystery of three guns, the pulled-out pant pockets of one victim, and the disappearance of a teenager whose stepfather always had the last laughโuntil he died.
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