A Bantam Book / July 1992. Bantam paperback edition / August 1992. Death on Demand series # 8. New York: Bantam Books 1992. Paperback, 290 pages.

Southern Ghost was in the bookbag Toss sent me last fall when she was clearing out their shelves. The book sounds interesting, I hope I'll find the time to read it before releasing.

1993 Anthony Award, Best Novel nominee

From back cover:
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she's faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has vanished and Max is the prime suspect in an unspecified crime. The baffling, bloodstained trail leads straight to the doorstep of Tarrant House, home of a venerable Southern family with a violent history dating back to the Revolution—and ghosts of a far more recent vintage.
Annie and Max find that the dignified facade of Tarrant House hides a hotbed of deadly passions as the family turns on itself in a mayhem of murderous motives and angry accusations. But in the end Annie must summon all her sleuthing skills to stop a desperate killer who is ready to strike again to keep the secrets that haunt the Tarrants from the light of day....

About the author:
CAROLYN G. HART is the author of eight “Death on Demand” mysteries featuring Annie Darling, including Something Wicked, for which she won an Agatha and an Anthony; Honeymoon with Murder, which won an Anthony; and A Little Class on Murder, which won a Macavity. She lives in Oklahoma City with her husband Phil.

Carolyn Hart at Wikipedia
Carolyn Hart Homepage
Death on Demand series at the author's website

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Picked this up from the LFL outside the International School as I was leaving a book there. My car was running so that the battery would not die, so I was in a hurry. I'm not into ghost stories as such, but I thought I might be able to tag somebody with this. It was only later that I noticed the plot is set in a bookstore, which is always a bonus to old bookshop-keepers like me.

Making more than just a mental note: I've tagged Bookworm-lady with this book. Ought to read it soon.

The ghost book had done a disappearance act in my wee flat, but now that it has come visible again I tried to read it. I'm nowadays rather merciless with books which do not take you into their grip from page one. My life is too short to read books I do not particularly like. I had just finished my first book by a Spanish writer (La felicidad es un to contigo by Mamen Sánches, in Finnish) and enjoyed the silly plot, so this was a big drop from there. Well, the good thing is that the book leaves to Madrid hopefully already tomorrow.

Finally the Ghost gets to move south and become a true South-European Ghost.

And here it is!! It must have taken the scenic route, but it's here, safe and sound...
Thank you sooo much, kirjakko; looking forward to reading it. :)