Sugarplum Dead

Its place in Death on Demand

Sugarplum Dead is book 12 in the Death on Demand series. It follows White Elephant Dead. It is followed by April Fool Dead. See the full Death on Demand reading order.

Annie Laurance owns Death on Demand, a mystery bookstore on the fictional South Carolina resort island of Broward's Rock, where she sells classic whodunits by day and, with alarming frequency, finds herself investigating real ones. She's joined by her eventual husband Max Darling, a wealthy dilettante who turns amateur-investigation into his own semi-serious profession, and the island's tight social world of writers, retirees and local eccentrics supplies both suspects and victims book after book. Carolyn Hart is…