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Lily Bard mysteries volume 3
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English
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ily Bard heads home to Bartley, Arkansas, for her sister Varena's Christmas wedding, but ends up involved in an investigation with her private detective boyfriend. But there's something in the air besides holiday cheer--there's murder.
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
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English
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A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 8
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English
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Police chief Arly Hanks tries to keep her head when the people of Maggody get UFO fever in this uproarious cozy mystery.
Life is so boring in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, the locals have resorted to reading supermarket tabloids, gobbling up every rumor of wolf men, zombies, and creatures from outer space they can get their hands on. And as the only sane woman in town, Chief of Police Arly Hanks just smiles and nods whenever her...
Life is so boring in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, the locals have resorted to reading supermarket tabloids, gobbling up every rumor of wolf men, zombies, and creatures from outer space they can get their hands on. And as the only sane woman in town, Chief of Police Arly Hanks just smiles and nods whenever her...
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
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English
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Cleaning woman/karate expert Lily Bard is determined to leave the investigation of lifelong Shakespeare, Arkansas resident Deedra Dean's murder strictly to the police, but she is compelled to take on the role of sleuth when the authorities come up with a long list of suspects and very few clues.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 3
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English
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Nothing ever happens in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755. Aside from handling the occasional barroom brawl or exploding still, Chief of Police Arly Hanks spends her days sipping coffee and squashing flies. She returned to Maggody two years ago, licking her wounds after a bad Manhattan divorce, and she fell backward into the role of sheriff. From Hizzoner the Moron--also known as Jim Bob Buchanon, the pettily corrupt mayor--to Ruby Bee Hanks--Arly's...
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860L
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Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flsh across monitors and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack, the town demands that Arly find the answers.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 6
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English
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Small-town police chief Arly Hanks takes on the New York Police Department to save her mother from a murder rap in this madcap police procedural.
When her marriage went up in smoke, Arly Hanks left Manhattan and never looked back. As police chief of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, Arly is a glorified traffic cop, and she couldn’t be happier. But when Arly’s mother, the indomitable Ruby Bee Hanks, is invited to a baking...
When her marriage went up in smoke, Arly Hanks left Manhattan and never looked back. As police chief of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, Arly is a glorified traffic cop, and she couldn’t be happier. But when Arly’s mother, the indomitable Ruby Bee Hanks, is invited to a baking...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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1000L
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English
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Televangelist Malachi Hope is performing nightly miracles in Maggody, Arkansas, but his plan to build a Christian theme park in the small town plants seeds of greed in some hearts leading to the murder of one of the faithful and sending police chief Arly Hanks on a mission for truth.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 1
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English
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After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case.
Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police—until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state...
Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police—until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 10
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English
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In this hilarious cozy mystery, small-town police chief Arly Hanks tries to stop a right-wing militia from turning Maggody into a battlefield. The sign welcoming travelers to Maggody, Arkansas, reads "Pop. 755," and don't expect Hizzoner Jim Bob to repaint it just because there's someone new in town. The mayor won't go out of his way for anyone, especially someone wicked--and a woman who would open a pawnshop in Maggody must be very wicked indeed....
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 4
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English
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A new supermarket in the small town of Maggody threatens several other small business owners. When supermarket tampering results in death, the police investigate.
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 19
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English
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"Longtime bookseller and single mother, Claire Malloy has recently married her long term beau and moved out of her less than opulent apartment into a sprawling, newly remodeled house. Her daughter, Caron, is making plans for college. All of which leaves Claire with something she hasn't had in quite a while: spare time. When her attempts to learn French cooking start getting "mixed" reviews, she agrees to help Caron and her best friend Inez in fluffing...
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 16
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English
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A renaissance fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas. Though resistant to getting involved, Claire Malloy, local bookseller and mother of the perpetually petulant teen Caron, finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair. But a dark mood falls over the festivities when one of the organizers is a victim of arson, and her body is found in the burned wreckage of her rented house....
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 13
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English
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A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she's never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers...
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When award-winning country crooner Matt Montana's behaviour begins to deteriorate, his publicity people decide to bolster his image with a down-home Christmas. The hometown Montana claims is Maggody, where he spent a few summers with Aunt Adele. But, while the Maggody folk wildly exploit the upcoming event, elderly Aunt Adele vanishes from the nursing home after obtaining a pair of swim fins. Some strong language and some violence
19) Dark deception
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Defenders of justice volume 2
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English
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Kate O'Brien's quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas is shaken where her past suddenly comes roaring back to life. Years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked...Only Kate survived, and she's been in witness protection ever since. When new evidence arise to suggest the convicted man wasn't the murderer, she's subpoenaed to testify in the new trial. Afraid to go back into that world, Kate only agrees if Tony DeLuca, the deputy marshal...
20) Ozark dogs
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"After his son is convicted of capital murder, Vietnam War veteran Jeremiah Fitzjurls takes over the care of his granddaughter, Joanna, raising her with as much warmth as can be found in a junkyard outfitted to be an armory. He teaches her how to shoot and fight, but there is not enough training in the world to protect her when the dreaded Ledfords, notorious meth dealers and fanatical white supremacists, come to collect on Joanna as payment for a...
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