Death by Surprise (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series) - Hardcover

Hart, Carolyn G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786222492 ISBN 13: 9780786222490

Publisher: Five Star, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Hart, Carolyn G.

About this title

About the Author:

CAROLYN HART (Oklahoma City, OK) is the winner of multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is a cofounder of Sisters in Crime. Her prolific career has included the enduring Death on Demand series as well as the Henrie O and Bailey Ruth books. At Malice Domestic, she received the 2012 Amelia Award and, in 2007, a Lifetime Achievement Award. She has published fifty mystery novels, including Dead, White and Blue (Berkeley Prime Crime, May 2013), the latest installment of the Death on Demand series. Visit her online at www.carolynhart.com and www.facebook.com/AuthorCarolynHart.

From Publishers Weekly:

In the new introduction to this Carolyn Hart classic, the author admits that as a young teen she devoured hard-boiled private eye books. She goes on to explain that the present title, first published in 1983, is as near that genre as I have ever come. Attorney K.C. Carlisle, a self-described liberal who practices in La Luz, Calif., gets pulled into a family drama when an unscrupulous freelance writer tries to blackmail her wealthy kin. All the Carlisles have deep, dark secrets—K.C. herself, her mother, two brothers, and two cousins, not to mention her late, sainted father, a judge. The premise strains credulity, as does the blackmailer being stupid enough to invite the victims to come one at a time to her apartment. Still, K.C. does a decent job investigating the case and putting the pieces together. When a potential love interest says to her, You've slept around some, and she shrugs, the reader is likely to laugh out loud. Hard-boiled? Not so much. (Nov.)

About this edition

• Publisher: Five Star
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786222492
• ISBN 13: 9780786222490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216