Joan Hess
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 10
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English
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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.
22) Tickled to death
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 9
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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 13
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English
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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 4
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English
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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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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.
26) The Arly Hanks Mysteries Volume One: Malice in Maggody, Mischief in Maggody, and Much Ado in Maggody
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2017
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English
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Police chief Arly Hanks investigates murder in her Ozark hometown in three books of a beloved series by an Agatha Award–winning author.
Her marriage and career over, Arly Hanks heads home to Maggody, Arkansas, for a fresh start. Not much ever happens in a village this size, so Arly figures her new job as chief of police will be pretty quiet. But the seemingly peaceful Maggody residents have a few secrets of their own . . ....
Her marriage and career over, Arly Hanks heads home to Maggody, Arkansas, for a fresh start. Not much ever happens in a village this size, so Arly figures her new job as chief of police will be pretty quiet. But the seemingly peaceful Maggody residents have a few secrets of their own . . ....
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 3
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English
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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...
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 11
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[1996]
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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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Three cozy mysteries set in a small, eccentric Arkansas town where a divorcée is getting a fresh start as police chief. With her career and marriage gone bust, Arly Hanks leaves Manhattan behind for her small hometown of Maggody, Arkansas. She thought not much would happen after she became the town's first female police chief, but Maggody is full of surprises…
Madness in Maggody: The mayor's supermarket opening gala is ruined when tainted tamales...
32) The Deadly Ackee
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English
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Retired florist Theo Bloomer would much rather stay at home than go on a disastrous Jamaican vacation in this charming cozy mystery. Every time Dorrie Caldicott gets into trouble, it falls to Theo Bloomer to bail her out. So when Dorrie and her college buddies rent a villa in Jamaica, Uncle Theo is called on to chaperone. An unassuming retired florist, Theo prefers pottering around his greenhouse to traveling the world, but he has a soft spot for...
33) Caveat Emptor
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Delightfully deadly short fiction from the pen of Joan Hess, creator of Maggody, Arkansas. Althea is caught in a romance writer's worst nightmare: She's been trapped in one of her own melodramatic creations. Around her, strapping men chase after elegant women whose bosoms heave and whose bodices beg to be ripped. There's no television, no women's lib, and absolutely no escape. Worst of all, Althea fits right in. Everyone recognizes her as the penniless...
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Eleven stories of jealousy, lunacy, and murder told in the uproarious style of Joan Hess, the creator of Maggody, Arkansas. As he waits in the checkout line at Consumers Market, Jay Jay Anderson is certain of one thing: His wife, Cookie, deserves to die. In the tabloids, he finds a story about a man whose wife was kidnapped by Big Foot, and Jay Jay can't imagine a luckier fellow. But Cookie is a wino with nicotine-stained fingers, badly bleached hair,...
35) The goodbye body
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 15
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English
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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.
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 7
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English
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Claire Malloy and her daughter, Caron, are caught in the middle of an ill-tempered gathering at the Louisiana mansion of Claire's late husband. When the family matriarch is found drowned in the bayou, they must sort through lies and dark family secrets.
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Claire Malloy mysteries volume 8
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English
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Strange things keep happening next door at the Kappa Theta Eta sorority house, but when someone is killed, Claire must reluctantly get involved. Little does she suspect that the secrets of the sorority girls are more blue than pink. Claire's investigation unearths some oddball characters and leads to a sleazy motel.
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Claire owns a cute little bookstore in an abandoned railroad depot. She allows her friend to use her store for an autograph party for her latest smutty romance (although she doesn't stock her works). Later her friend turns up dead and there is no end of suspects...