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Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
Language
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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Series
Lily Bard mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
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 14
Language
English
Description
Anticipating the filming of a Civil War documentary, Maggody citizens become excited over rumors that Confederate gold may be hidden in a local cave, prompting a flood of outside visitors including an apparently murderous ghost.
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 10
Language
English
Description
Bookseller-turned-sleuth Claire Malloy returns in the story of Zeno Gorgias, an outrageous artist who lives next door to Claire's friend, Miss Parchester, and creates turmoil in the neighborhood with his artwork and as a murder suspect.
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 9
Language
English
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A bird sanctuary is the setting for this whodunit featuring Claire Malloy, bookstore owner and sleuth. Her best friend, Luanne, has become engaged to a prominent dentist, Dick Cissel, whose two previous wives met untimely and gruesome ends. Claire decides to check him out.
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 12
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English
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The winter solstice festival of the Druids in Arkansas is marred by the murder of a doctor, the cult's principal benefactor. As bookstore owner and sleuth Claire Malloy investigates, suspicion centers on members of the cult who were his tenants.
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Description
Claire Malloy's life is turned upside down when the mystery convention she is organizing goes haywire.
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 19
Language
English
Description
"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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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
Description
"Finding what she hopes will be an ideal house to share with her new husband and teenage daughter, Claire Malloy learns that the property's previous owner died under suspicious circumstances and that a real estate agent has gone missing"--from NoveList.
14) The dirty south
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English
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"It is 1999, and someone is slaughtering young black women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one wants to admit it, not in the Dirty South. In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. He cares only for his own lost family. But that is about to change. Witness the becoming of Charlie Parker."--
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
At Farberville High, it's reading, writing ... and murder. Who knows what evil lurks in the halls of Farbervilles' high school-or what blackmail is hidden in Miss Demeanor's Falcon Crier advice column? Certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy-until her daughter Caron persuades her to substitute for disgraced column editor and journalism teacher Emily Parchester. Surely Miss Parchester cannot be guilty of embezzlement. But the...
16) The goodbye body
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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Description
Staying at the home of a wealthy customer when her own apartment is rendered unlivable, bookstore owner Claire Malloy becomes increasingly convinced that the house's owner is not who she claims to be.
17) Mummy dearest
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Series
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English
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With Peter mostly away on various mysterious consultations while on their honeymoon; Caron is left to spend her time with those who accompanied them. The trip quickly switched from sleepy to creepy, when Caron & Inez are chased by persons unknown. Then a college student is kidnapped by twp men. Something is clearly afoot & now Claire will stop at nothning to find out what.
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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When scientist Veronica Landonwood's shot at winning the Nobel Prize is threatened by a blackmailer who knows all about her sordid past, she calls upon her cousin, amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, for help. Unfortunately, Claire's inquiries seem to be leaving a path of dead bodies and she has reason to believe the next one may be her own.
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Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Claire Malloy is the reluctant director of the town's beauty contest. When someone seems to be stalking last year's queen, and later takes a shot at her car while in a parade, Claire is prompted to investigate why someone would want to murder Farberville's own Miss Thurberfest.
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English
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"Mallory Martin left her marriage and her unfulfilling job to move back to her hometown of Hillspring, Arkansas, and start a horse rescue. It's everything she's been missing, with paddocks of happy horses and one very quirky donkey. But when her cantankerous neighbor and longtime critic, Albert Cunningham, is found murdered in his fancy show barn, Mallory becomes suspect number one. Since Sheriff Grady Sullivan is ignoring all good sense and focusing...
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