Part of Death on Demand, book 9
First published 1996
Annie Laurence Darling runs the Death on Demand Bookstore and makes her annual trip to the Dixie Book Festival. This year brings a new responsibility. She serves as author liaison to five writers receiving the prestigious Dixie Book Festival Medallions. The honored authors carry oversized egos that make her job difficult. A publisher arrives at the festival with plans for a tell-all book that promises to expose secrets. The publisher turns up dead before the proposal can move forward. The investigation focuses on Annie and her husband as prime suspects. The evidence builds a case against them both. Annie must clear their names while navigating the festival's literary politics and dangerous personalities.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary
Vibes: cozy, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: amateur-sleuth, found-family
Setting: Dixie Book Festival
Period: contemporary
256 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Bantam