HESS,Joan Books
Poisoned Pins
some Girls Are Just Dying… claire Malloy Loves Her Life. But How Did It Go By So Fast? A Bookstore Owner, Part-time Sleuth, And Full-time Single Mother, Claire Is About To Turn The Big Four-oh! Goo...
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The Merry Wives Of Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery
OneStill water may run deep, but the rapids will leave you bruised and battered in Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755). That is, if the locals don’t get you first. Some of them are devious, some are stupi...
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Mummy Dearest: A Claire Malloy Mystery
In the ancient Land of the PharaohsClaire Malloy—a single, widowed mother of a teenage daughter and a bookseller in Farberville, Arkansas—has finally said ‘I do’ to her swain, Peter Rosen of the lo...
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Busy Bodies
“a Tangled Maze Of Mischief, Greed, And Murder.”—mostly Murdersince His Recent Arrival, Avant-garde Artist Zeno Gorgias Has Been Turning Heads And Attracting Gawkers In The Otherwise Tame College T...
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A Really Cute Corpse
When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty...
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Dear Miss Demeanor
Agatha Award-winning author Joan Hess, the prolific creator of the Claire Malloy and Maggody mysteries, is beloved for her clever sleuths, quirky characters, and her ingenious plotting. We invite y...
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Strangled Prose
She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her tow it... Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Mallo...
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The Murder At The Murder At The Mimosa Inn: A Claire Malloy Mystery
When you make a game of murder, be careful who the players are... Who could resist the mock-murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn-- certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Mallo...
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A Conventional Corpse
farberville, Arkansas Is Playing Host To Its First Ever Mystery Convention. Sponsored By The Thurber Farber Foundation And Held At Farber College, Murder Comes To Campus Is Playing Host To Five Maj...
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A Diet To Die For
A Diet to Die ForONEThe little bell above the door of the Book Depot jangled with such fury I expected to see it sail across the room. It did not. To my regret, two teenage girls sailed across th...
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