Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery, Book 13
    Unavailable
    April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery, Book 13
    Unavailable
    April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery, Book 13
    Audiobook8 hours

    April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery, Book 13

    Written by Carolyn Hart

    Narrated by Kate Reading

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    When seasonal mischief turns deadly, bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, must again close the book on a killer, in this delightful new whodunit from the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author.

    Reading about deadly doings remains as popular a pastime as ever for citizens of stormy Broward's Rock. Now, with spring newly sprung, Annie Darling has conceived of an ingenious promotional scheme: offering a free book to anyone who can solve a series of clues from popular whodunits. Annie and hubby Max pass out their flyers all over town. But an April Fool prankster is distributing a counterfeit flyer-complete with not-so-vague accusations of murder.

    Suddenly the Darling name is mud, thanks to the vicious slanders of an unknown counterfeiter. And Annie knows that she herself is going to have to do the bulk of the sleuthing. Then, just as things couldn't seem to get any worse, they do. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, Annie's hunt for a malicious trickster has become a desperate search for a killer. Because now more than her reputation is at stake. If she can't rid her idyllic isle of a secret slayer, the malefactor's next murderous "joke" may be on her!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 12, 2003
    ISBN9781415911846
    Unavailable
    April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery, Book 13
    Author

    Carolyn Hart

    An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, featuring a retired reporter, and the Bailey Ruth series, starring an impetuous, redheaded ghost. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.

    More audiobooks from Carolyn Hart

    Related to April Fool Dead

    Related audiobooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jan 19, 2022

      by Jenny O’Brien (£8.99, PB, HarperCollins) Fans of DI Gaby Darin will be delighted to return to north Wales for the fifth book in this popular series. When Hannah Thomas returns from a spa trip with her friend to find her fiancé dead and her diabeti

      2 min read

    • Article

      TV& Books Special

      Apr 14, 2022

      TV& Books Special
      1 min read

    • Article

      For March, 3 Romances That Fight For Love

      Mar 19, 2019

      True love finds a way amid food trucks, ice skates and ... knife throwing? In other words, March is just another month in Romancelandia, and we've got three stories of people fighting hard for love.

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Truth Beneath

      Aug 28, 2022

      The Truth Beneath
      2 min read

    • Article

      Novel Escape

      Dec 26, 2021

      Novel Escape
      3 min read

    • Article

      Best Books

      Feb 1, 2022

      Best Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Apr 16, 2021

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      ‘A Better Man’ Shows Louise Penny At Her Compelling Best

      Sep 5, 2019

      Her Three Pines mystery series, with Inspector Gamache, is a rare one that becomes more interesting the longer it goes on.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Crime Book Of The MONTH

      Jul 21, 2021

      by Lesley Pearse (Penguin, RRP $37) “Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours,” goes the slightly annoying theme song to the long-running Aussie soap. It’s a message the neighbours in this book seem to have missed. Young couple Nina and Conrad Bes

      1 min read

    • Article

      Science Fiction And Fantasy

      Nov 3, 2022

      Peng Shepherd Orion 2022 Hb, 392pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781398709928 Map-makers sometimes include false information in a map – a made-up river name, or a small street or hamlet – to catch other map-makers stealing and copying their maps. But what if one of

      4 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Nov 30, 2022

      by Lisa Gray (£8.99, PB, Thomas & Mercer) Leonard, a freelance crime journalist, has an unusual hobby – he buys undeveloped 35mm film spools and develops the pictures. When a negative of a blood-splattered woman materialises, he realises this is an

      2 min read

    • Article

      Great Read

      Jan 25, 2024

      The latest novel from Hannah Richell is a change of pace from her previous books, moving firmly into the locked-room murder thriller genre. “In this case the ‘room’ is a peninsula that the characters can’t escape and the murder victim’s identity isn’

      4 min read

    • Article

      The World Of Writing

      Jul 7, 2022

      The World Of Writing
      3 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Spencer, Phillips, and More

      Jun 16, 2020

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of  Scott Spencer, Lucie Britsch, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Spencer, Phillips, and More appeared fi

      5 min read

    • Article

      On The Box

      Sep 28, 2021

      On The Box
      2 min read

    • Article

      Better Books

      Apr 12, 2023

      At the end of a scorching hot Christmas Eve in 1959, a local man makes a dreadful discovery on the grounds of a grand country home in the Adelaide Hills. Police are called in and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in a dreadful murder case.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Thug Life Flashback

      Jan 12, 2020

      Thug Life Flashback
      2 min read

    • Article

      Digging Into Danger

      Sep 26, 2021

      Like an Olympic pole vaulter who raises the bar after already securing the gold, Scottish author Val McDermid continues to push herself to new heights even though she’s well entrenched as a modern queen of the crime genre. after taking her long-runni

      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 2, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      The World Of Writing

      Jul 7, 2022

      The World Of Writing
      3 min read

    • Article

      Lucky For Some

      Nov 14, 2021

      Lucky For Some
      4 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Books Guide

      Nov 30, 2022

      This is Fiona McIntosh’s first novel set entirely in Australia. Her heroine, Fleur, is just eight when she is already helping her adoptive undertaker parents prepare bodies. Mother Mae knows their only daughter is capable of running the Port Adelaide

      10 min read

    • Article

      New York times

      Nov 16, 2022

      By Darryl Pinckney Riverrun £30 In England, writing is not particularly respected as a profession, least of all by writers themselves. We work in bed, keep our own hours, and wear slippers to go the shops. Most writers I know potter along at their ow

      3 min read

    Reviews for April Fool Dead

    3.5/5

    57 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      Annie Darling has thought up the absolute best promotion for the April 1st book-signing of Emma Clyde’s latest Marigold Rembrandt mystery. She’s papered the island of Broward’s Rock with flyers and is sure to have a huge turnout at her Death on Demand mystery bookstore. When she spots a skywriting plane spelling out the book title – WHODUNIT? – she assumes her wealthy husband, Max, has orchestrated the surprise. But it wasn’t Max, or anyone else Annie knows. And more distressing, Annie soon learns that someone has distributed fake flyers with clues to several local crimes and offering a $1000 prize for the first person to solve them. If this is someone’s idea of an April Fool’s joke, it’s not very funny. Annie has to put a stop to this; her business is at risk!

      This is book # 13 in the Death on Demand series. I read the first one a couple of years ago and it was entertaining enough. I picked this one up because the cover art satisfied a challenge. I’m sorry I didn’t check the library’s shelves for other options, because this was really dreadful.

      The mystery flyers are just a lot of noise and Hart keeps jumping from character to character giving different points of view. The murder doesn’t happen until page 150, and apparently only Annie is investigating because we hardly see a police officer Then there is the side story involving Max’s mother, Laurel – a bigger-than-life wealthy widow with way too much time on her hands – which is totally unnecessary. I never did figure out what all the divining rods were for.

      I have a feeling that this series, like so many others, has more than run its course; the author seems to have run out of coherent ideas. In a nutshell – the characters aren’t developed; the plot is disorganized; clues are nonexistent; the writing is padded with descriptions that add nothing to the story or atmosphere. Oh, and the cover art has absolutely nothing to do with the story, as far as I can tell. Don’t waste your time.
    • 3/5
      Entertaining cast of kooky characters and enough mystery to keep it interesting. The real star for me is that island- I'm adding it to my bucket list of places I must visit.