Sugar plum dead

Description:

It's getting to look a lot like Christmas on the sea island of Broward's Rock, South Carolina. At the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, owner Annie Darling's Yuletide preparations have to be put on hold thanks to several rather inconvenient distractions -- including murder. Across the windswept isle, in the spacious, spooky mansion of Marguerite Dumaney Ladson, a motley crew is gathering for the onetime movie star's gala Xmas/birthday bash. And when it turns deadly, it's Annie who has to prove the innocence of the most disturbing suspect: her own deadbeat dad.

subjects: Women detectives,  Max Darling (Fictitious character),  Annie Laurance Darling (Fictitious character),  Booksellers and bookselling in fiction,  South Carolina in fiction,  Fiction,  American Detective and mystery stories,  Women detectives in fiction,  Booksellers and bookselling,  Large type books,  Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths,  Darling, max (fictitious character), fiction,  Darling, annie laurance (fictitious character), fiction,  Children's fiction,  Mystery and detective stories,  South carolina, fiction

Places: South Carolina