Death On Demand Books in Order
There are 27 Death On Demand books, published between 1987 and 2017: 26 in the Death On Demand series and 1 related title. The first book is Death On Demand (1987) and the newest main-line book is Walking on My Grave (2017). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 27
- Published
- 1987–2017
- Confirmed
- 27 of 27 titles
- Pages on record
- 6,396 in 22 of 27 books
- Reading time
- 107–160 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 6,396 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 22 of 27 titles with a page count on record.
Death On Demand is Carolyn G. Hart's mystery series, with 27 catalogued books from Death On Demand (1987) to Walking on My Grave (2017). Subjects include bookselling, women detectives, Annie Laurance Darling, Max Darling, South Carolina and the imaginary Broward's Rock. Design For Murder (1988), Honeymoon with Murder (1988) and Something Wicked (1988) came early, followed by The Christie Caper (1991), Southern Ghost (1992) and Yankee Doodle Dead (1998). The series is listed as likely complete.
How many Death On Demand books are there?
Death On Demand has 27 books, released between 1987 and 2017. 26 of them belong to the Death On Demand series, and 1 related title sit outside it: other titles.
Death On Demand Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 27 Death On Demand books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 119871953/4
- 219882173/4
- 319882263/4
- 419882273/4
- 519892443/4
- 619902443/4
- 71991–3/4
- 81992–3/4
- 919952563/4
- 1019983043/4
- 1119993043/4
- 1220004053/4
- 1320014273/4
- 1420033523/4
- 1520043363/4
- 1620052933/4
- 1720062803/4
- 1820083043/4
- 1920092923/4
- 2020102823/4
- 212011–3/4
- 222012–3/4
- 2320132963/4
- 2420143043/4
- 2520153043/4
- 262015–3/4
- 2720173043/4
Do you have to read Death On Demand books in order?
You should read the Death On Demand series in publication order, the order of the numbered table above; the 1 related title (other titles) sit outside that sequence. The catalogue does not record whether each Death On Demand book also stands alone.
Where to start with Death On Demand
Start with Death On Demand (1987), the earliest published book in the Death On Demand series.
What is the newest Death On Demand book?
Walking on My Grave (2017) is the newest book in the Death On Demand series.
Is there a new Death On Demand book coming?
No next Death On Demand book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Death On Demand at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest main-line Death On Demand title on record is Walking on My Grave (2017), 9 years ago.
- Release pace
- Death On Demand books have appeared about one a year on average.
- Length
- 6,396 pages across the 22 of 27 books with a recorded length, a median of 294 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Death On Demand books, 8 of 27, were published in the 2010s.
- Attribution
- Of the 27 titles, 26 are credited to Carolyn G. Hart and 1 to Carolyn Hart.
What the Death On Demand books are about
26 of the 27 Death On Demand books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: booksellers and bookselling is tagged on 18 of 26. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Booksellers and bookselling 18 of 26 books
- Max Darling (Fictitious character) 15 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective, women sleuths 15 of 26 books
- Mystery & detective 10 of 26 books
- Darling, max (fictitious character) 7 of 26 books
- South Carolina 6 of 26 books
- Broward's rock (s.c. : imaginary place) 5 of 26 books
- Missing persons 4 of 26 books
- Booksellers and bookselling in fiction 3 of 26 books