Her books include the popular "Death on Demand" mystery series, the "Henrie O" mystery series, and Letter from Home.
Part of an exchange from Hart's interview with Publishers Weekly:
PW: When you wrote your first Death on Demand novel, why did you have your amateur sleuth, Annie Darling, own a mystery bookstore?Read the full interview.
CH: That goes back to the whole heart of what happened to me as a writer. When Death on Demand came out [in 1987], it was my 15th published book and I was really invisible as a writer. I’d sell a mystery here and there, and it would be published and immediately disappear into the black holes of publishing. I think New York at that time felt that mysteries were the province of the dead English ladies and hard-boiled American private eyes. So I got to the point that I thought, This is really stupid. I am going to write one more book, and this time I am not going to give any thought to the market. I’m not going to care about the fact that nobody seems to like mysteries. By setting it in a mystery bookstore, I can, through my protagonist, celebrate the mysteries I love, both present and past.
The 18th "Death on Demand" mystery is due out in Spring 2008.
Read more about the author and her books at Carolyn Hart's website.
--Marshal Zeringue