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Carolyn Hart is an American author that writes mystery novels. She was born Carolyn Gimpel in 1936. The author spends her childhood in Oklahoma City. A former student at Cleveland Elementary and Taft Junior High, Hart knew from a young age that she wanted to write.

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Order of Death On Demand Series

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1 Death On Demand 1987 Description / Buy
2 Design For Murder 1988 Description / Buy
3 Something Wicked 1988 Description / Buy
4 Honeymoon with Murder 1988 Description / Buy
5 A Little Class on Murder 1989 Description / Buy
6 Deadly Valentine 1990 Description / Buy
7 The Christie Caper 1991 Description / Buy
8 Southern Ghost 1992 Description / Buy
9 Mint Julep Murder 1995 Description / Buy
10 Yankee Doodle Dead 1998 Description / Buy
11 White Elephant Dead 1999 Description / Buy
12 Sugarplum Dead 2000 Description / Buy
13 April Fool Dead 2001 Description / Buy
14 Engaged to Die 2003 Description / Buy
15 Murder Walks the Plank 2004 Description / Buy
16 Death of the Party 2005 Description / Buy
17 Dead Days of Summer 2006 Description / Buy
18 Death Walked In 2008 Description / Buy
19 Dare to Die 2009 Description / Buy
20 Laughed 'Til He Died 2010 Description / Buy
21 Dead by Midnight 2011 Description / Buy
22 Death Comes Silently 2012 Description / Buy
23 Dead, White, and Blue 2013 Description / Buy
24 Death at the Door 2014 Description / Buy
25 Don't Go Home 2015 Description / Buy
26 From the Queen (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
27 Walking on My Grave 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Henrie O Series

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1 Henrie O's Holiday (Short Story) 1992 Description / Buy
2 Dead Man's Island 1993 Description / Buy
3 Scandal in Fair Haven 1994 Description / Buy
4 Death in Lovers' Lane 1997 Description / Buy
5 Death in Paradise 1998 Description / Buy
6 Death on the River Walk 1999 Description / Buy
7 Resort to Murder 2001 Description / Buy
8 Set Sail for Murder 2007 Description / Buy

Order of Bailey Ruth Series

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1 Ghost at Work 2008 Description / Buy
2 Merry, Merry Ghost 2009 Description / Buy
3 Ghost in Trouble 2010 Description / Buy
4 Ghost Gone Wild 2013 Description / Buy
5 Ghost Wanted 2014 Description / Buy
6 Ghost to the Rescue 2015 Description / Buy
7 Ghost Times Two 2016 Description / Buy
8 Ghost on the Case 2017 Description / Buy
9 Ghost Ups Her Game 2020 Description / Buy
10 Ghost Blows a Kiss 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Nela Farley Series

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1 What the Cat Saw 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Carolyn G. Hart Standalone Novels

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1 The Secret of the Cellars 1964 Description / Buy
2 Dangerous Summer 1969 Description / Buy
3 Rendezvous in Veracruz 1970 Description / Buy
4 No Easy Answers 1970 Description / Buy
5 Danger High Explosives! 1972 Description / Buy
6 Flee From the Past 1975 Description / Buy
7 A Settling of Accounts 1976 Description / Buy
8 Escape from Paris 1982 Description / Buy
9 Death by Surprise 1983 Description / Buy
10 The Rich Die Young 1983 Description / Buy
11 Castle Rock 1983 Description / Buy
12 Brave Hearts 1987 Description / Buy
13 Skulduggery 2000 Description / Buy
14 Letter From Home 2003 Description / Buy
15 Cry in the Night 2012 Description / Buy
16 Cliff's Edge 2014 Description / Buy
17 High Stakes 2015 Description / Buy
18 Peril Off Padre (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Carolyn G. Hart Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Your Turn (Short Story) 2009 Description / Buy

Order of Carolyn G. Hart Short Story Collections

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1 Crime on Her Mind 1999 Description / Buy
2 Secrets and Other Stories of Suspense 2002 Description / Buy

Order of Carolyn G. Hart Non-Fiction

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1 Cooks' Books 2005 Description / Buy
2 Much Depends on Dinner 2008 Description / Buy
3 A Feast of Cooks 2009 Description / Buy

Order of Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries Series with Mary Daheim

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1 Just Desserts ( By: Mary Daheim) 1991 Description / Buy
2 Fowl Prey ( By: Mary Daheim) 1991 Description / Buy
3 Holy Terrors ( By: Mary Daheim) 1992 Description / Buy
4 Dune to Death ( By: Mary Daheim) 1993 Description / Buy
5 Bantam of the Opera ( By: Mary Daheim) 1993 Description / Buy
6 A Fit of Tempera ( By: Mary Daheim) 1994 Description / Buy
7 Major Vices ( By: Mary Daheim) 1995 Description / Buy
8 Murder, My Suite ( By: Mary Daheim) 1995 Description / Buy
9 Auntie Mayhem ( By: Mary Daheim) 1996 Description / Buy
10 Nutty as a Fruitcake ( By: Mary Daheim) 1996 Description / Buy
11 September Mourn ( By: Mary Daheim) 1997 Description / Buy
12 Wed and Buried ( By: Mary Daheim) 1998 Description / Buy
13 Snow Place to Die ( By: Mary Daheim) 1998 Description / Buy
14 Legs Benedict ( By: Mary Daheim) 1998 Description / Buy
15 Creeps Suzette ( By: Mary Daheim) 2000 Description / Buy
16 A Streetcar Named Expire ( By: Mary Daheim) 2001 Description / Buy
17 Suture Self ( By: Mary Daheim) 2001 Description / Buy
18 Silver Scream ( By: Mary Daheim) 2002 Description / Buy
19 Hocus Croakus ( By: Mary Daheim) 2003 Description / Buy
20 This Old Souse ( By: Mary Daheim) 2004 Description / Buy
21 Dead Man Docking ( By: Mary Daheim) 2005 Description / Buy
22 Saks & Violins ( By: Mary Daheim) 2006 Description / Buy
23 Scots on the Rocks ( By: Mary Daheim) 2007 Description / Buy
24 Vi Agra Falls ( By: Mary Daheim) 2008 Description / Buy
25 Loco Motive ( By: Mary Daheim) 2010 Description / Buy
26 All the Pretty Hearses ( By: Mary Daheim) 2011 Description / Buy
27 The Wurst Is Yet to Come ( By: Mary Daheim) 2012 Description / Buy
28 Gone with the Win ( By: Mary Daheim) 2013 Description / Buy
29 Clam Wake ( By: Mary Daheim) 2014 Description / Buy
30 Here Comes the Bribe ( By: Mary Daheim) 2015 Description / Buy
31 A Case of Bier ( By: Mary Daheim) 2018 Description / Buy
32 Lady MacDeath ( By: Mary Daheim) 2020 Description / Buy
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Order of Bibliomysteries Series

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1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
3 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
4 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
5 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
7 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
8 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
9 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
10 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
12 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
13 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
14 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
18 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
25 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
26 From the Queen (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
31 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
32 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
33 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
34 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
37 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
3 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
4 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
5 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
7 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
8 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
9 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
10 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
12 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
13 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
14 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
18 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
25 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
26 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) ( By: Christopher Fowler) 2016 Description / Buy
31 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
32 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
33 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
34 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
37 From the Queen (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy
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Order of Harlequin Gothic Romance Series

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1 Castle Malice ( By: Marilyn Ross) 1979 Description / Buy
2 Seventh Gate ( By: Dolores Holliday) 1981 Description / Buy
3 The Satyr Ring ( By: Alison Quinn) 1983 Description / Buy
4 The Ravens of Rockhurst ( By: Marian Martin) 1983 Description / Buy
5 Castle At Jade Cove ( By: Helen B. Hicks) 1984 Description / Buy
6 An Innocent Madness ( By: Dulcie Hollyock) 1984 Description / Buy
7 Restless Obsession ( By: Jane Toombs) 1984 Description / Buy
8 The Fourth Letter ( By: Alison Quinn) 1985 Description / Buy
9 Double Masquerade ( By: Dulcie Hollyock) 1985 Description / Buy
10 Legacy Of Raven's Rise ( By: Helen B. Hicks) 1985 Description / Buy
11 The Devereaux Legacy 1986 Description / Buy
12 Shadows Over Briarcliff ( By: Marilyn Ross) 1986 Description / Buy
13 Return To Shadow Creek ( By: Helen B. Hicks) 1986 Description / Buy
14 The Blue House ( By: Dolores Holliday) 1986 Description / Buy
15 Lord of High Cliff Manor ( By: Irene M. Pascoe) 1986 Description / Buy
16 Island Of Mystery ( By: Margaret M. Scariano) 1987 Description / Buy
17 Mirage On The Amazon ( By: Mary Kistler) 1987 Description / Buy
18 Shadow Over Bright Star ( By: Irene M. Pascoe) 1988 Description / Buy
19 Secret At Orient Point ( By: Patricia Werner) 1988 Description / Buy
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Carolyn Hart Anthologies

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1 Sisters in Crime 2 1990 Description / Buy
2 Deadly Allies 1992 Description / Buy
3 Great Mystery Series: Top Female Sleuths 1993 Description / Buy
4 The Fine Art of Murder: The Mystery Reader's Indispensable Companion 1993 Description / Buy
5 Partners in Crime 1994 Description / Buy
6 Crimes of the Heart 1995 Description / Buy
7 Malice Domestic 4 1995 Description / Buy
8 Funny Bones: 15 New Tales of Murder and Mayhem 1997 Description / Buy
9 First Cases, Volume 2 1997 Description / Buy
10 Magnolias and Mayhem 2000 Description / Buy
11 Love and Death 2000 Description / Buy
12 The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002 Description / Buy
13 Motherhood Is Murder 2003 Description / Buy
14 The Sunken Sailor 2004 Description / Buy
15 Murder Across the Map 2005 Description / Buy
16 Crimes by Moonlight 2010 Description / Buy
17 Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing 2010 Description / Buy
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However, she never thought that she would spend decades writing mysteries. Because she was a child during WWII, Hart was convinced that journalism was the most important field in the world.

She couldn’t imagine anything better than becoming a reporter and writing stories that mattered. Hart started practicing immediately by volunteering her skills to the school newspaper. She did the same thing in college.

She pursued journalism at the University of Oklahoma. The author met her husband during a European trip in her junior year. After graduation, she joined The Normal Transcript. Her husband was in law school at the time.

Even though Hart was doing what she had always dreamed of, she abandoned her reporting career when her son was born. She finally turned her attention to fiction in the mid-60s when she participated in a writing contest and won.

The competition, which Dodd, Mead, and Calling All Girls sponsored, wanted participants to write a mystery novel for adolescent girls. After realizing that she had a knack for entertaining young readers, Hart wrote several young adult mysteries in the years that followed.

But her attempts to write suspense and mystery novels for adults did not work, not initially. When she wrote ‘The Devereaux Legacy, Hart was desperate. She couldn’t sell her books because adult audiences did not care about mysteries written by American women.

The author was tempted to surrender. At the time, the romance genre was booming, and Hart considered changing lanes. This attitude gave birth to ‘The Devereaux Legacy.’ Hart took a mystery and reworked it as a romance novel.

The novel injected new life into her career because it had southern Gothic elements that got the attention of Harlequin’s Gothic wing. Her editor told her to lean into the Southern Gothic genre, and Hart tried, but it was difficult.

She was not accustomed to dealing with the destructive emotions that drove the family elements in Southern Gothic stories. Fortunately, she eventually created ‘Death on Demand,’ a series of novels that combined romance and mystery components.

It was the winning formula she needed to carve out a place for herself in publishing. Hart has spent the last several decades writing mystery novels. Despite what some people think, she doesn’t plot extensively.

The author doesn’t want to overanalyze her stories. It makes the writing process far too complicated. She knows authors with an intellectual approach to writing, but she doesn’t want to emulate them.

Additionally, she doesn’t give her audience too much thought. She assumes that the right people will find her books. Hart doesn’t go out of her way to appeal to a specific group of people. She wants her stories to provide an escape for readers.

Carolyn Hart Awards

Carolyn has won Agatha and Macavity Awards.

Best Carolyn Hart Books

Even though she has written fiction for several decades, the author still gets stuck while writing. She has moments of doubt where she worries that her manuscripts won’t come together. But she is always wrong. Carolyn’s best books include:

Death on Demand: Elliot Morgan is dead. The author died during a gathering at a bookstore. This is a problem for Annie because she owns the bookstore in question. She inherited the ‘Death on Demand’ mystery bookstore, and she allows a group of mystery writers to use it as a meeting place. When one of their members dies, Annie becomes the prime suspect.

Ghost at Work: When she was alive, Bailey took great pleasure in solving mysteries. Her death hasn’t changed anything. She won’t hesitate to lend a helping hand whenever the need arises.

This time around, her target is Kathleen. If people find the dead man on her porch, her husband, the pastor, will take the blame. Bailey can’t let that happen. She will rush back to earth and pull Kathleen out of the fire.

But helping the pastor’s wife isn’t easy. To succeed, she has to break some rules, and Wiggins, her supervisor, is watching.

When Does The Next Carolyn Hart book come out?

Carolyn Hart doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Ghost Blows a Kiss and was released on June, 1st 2021. It is the newest book in the Bailey Ruth Series.

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