Death in Lovers' Lane

by Carolyn G. Hart

Book Overview

A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta Henrie O Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380974134
• ISBN13: 9780380974139
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Intricately woven tale

Henrie O is teaching journalism in a college located in a small town in Missouri. When she encourages her students to pursue investigative reporting, one of them named Maggie Winslow decides to try to solve 3 old police cases which include 2 sets of murders and a disappearance. Maggie feels that the cases may be related and so she begins her own investigation. Soon her body is discovered near one of the previous crime scenes and Henrie O decides that Maggie must have been getting too close to the truth about the cases. Risking her own life in the process, Henrie O picks up the investigation where Maggie left off. She finds many members of the University community who had opportunity and motive for committing one or more of the murders. Intricately weaving the cases throughout the book, Carolyn Hart's main character manages to solve the mysteries in an intriguing way. This is another winner in the Henrie O Series!

Couldn't turn it off.

This was my first Henrie O, and I'm here looking for more. Actually, I listened to the book in the car, and I didn't want to turn the car off when I got to work (or back home, either). In fact, even though it was for "car listening" only, I snuck it inside and finished it the other evening. I fell in love with Miss Marple on the couch watching her on late night movies. I fell in love with Henrie O in the car. I want more, and you will, too.

I really enjoy the Henry O mysteries

I find that these mysteries are a bit darker and bit deeper than Ms. Hart's Death on Demand series. However, they are worth the time to read them. I have enjoyed everyone I've read. This book was no exception. Henrie O is a strong female who has not yet let go of her old reporting attitude although now she's a college prof. She encourages one of her young students, Maggie, to dig deeper into an old mystery of three murders. Maggie begins to do that and ends up dead. Henrie O decides that maybe it was her fault, that she pushed Maggie into the killers path. So picking up the path, Henrie O tries to figure out who killed Maggie and why. All of the Henrie O novels begin with a short introductory type of chapter but quickly develop into a great mystery. The characters are well thought out. These Henrie O books are very different from the Death on Demand series. The mysteries are a bit deeper and a bit darker. However, that doesn't make this series any less enjoyable.

A book you'll want to snuggle up with!

I read Death in Lovers' Lane a little over a year ago and still can't get over how much I enjoyed it! I couldn't put it down, and whenever I had to, I couldn't wait to get back to it. I was even sad to finish it. Carolyn Hart has written a cozy mystery in which Henrie O. solves not one case of suspicious death, but four! This book keeps you guessing and keeps you reading with intricate plot lines and engaging characters, the most engaging one being Henrie O. herself. This book is another score for Carolyn Hart and for the ever-more-charming Henrie O.

Devoured it, completely addicted.

I love a good mystery! She has the gift! This was the first Hart book I had read. Couldn't put it down. Just enough clues to make you think you know who did what to whom! Ha! What a surprise, it was great. Not an ounce of garbage. Wonderful romance. When I put it down I remembered the story and the plot. Sex did in NO way overshadow the great mystery that this remarkable Lady has spun. Thank you for being out there to give us mysterys that will be Classics to our Children's Children. M. Strong