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  Claire Malloy: Book 8

  Poisoned Pins

  by Joan Hess

  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! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls—whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys’—to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a... (more)
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  Misery Loves Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

  by Joan Hess

  "Delectable and continually surprising" (The New York Times Boos Review), Joan Hess's one-of-a-kind mystery series digs up murder and mayhem in the sleepy little town of Maggody, Arkansas. When beleaguered chief of police Arly Hanks hears that her mother, Ruby Bee, and best friend, Estelle Oppers, are headed for Memphis on an Elvis Pilgrimage, she thinks she may be getting a long-overdue break. But before she... (more)
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  Murder @ Maggody.com : An Arly Hanks Mystery

  by Joan Hess

  To the quirky and colorful residents of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, "going online" is something one does at the DMV. So when the high school's new computer lab gains access to the Internet, the town is plunged into virtual chaos. Students are caught sneaking peeks at pornographic Web sites, and compromising photos of prominent Maggody citizens are being flashed across the display monitors. But when the body... (more)
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  Fancy (Leisure Historical Romance)

  by Norah Hess

  Struggling to keep her family together after her father's accidental death, Fancy Cranson vows to work herself to the bone, until she meets woodsman Chance Dawson, who decides to claim Fancy as his own. Original.
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  Martians in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

  by Joan Hess

  Anticipating a normal, uneventful summer in the sleepy town of Maggody, police chief Arly Hanks is stunned when hysterical reports of strange lights, crop circles, and a hairy creature precede the arrival of tabloid reporters. Reprint.
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  Claire Malloy: Book 12

  A Holly Jolly Murder

  by Joan Hess

  THE GIFT THAT GIVES ON GIVING. . . With Farberville’s college on holiday break, Claire Malloy’s bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the silence is a little old lady looking for volumes on pagan rituals, applied magick, and Celtic mysticism.  Claire is intrigued and—miffed that her lover, Farberville police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, says she’s in a rut—happily accepts an invitation to welcome the winter... (more)
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  Caleb's Bride

  by Norah Hess

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  Unsolved Mysteries of History: An Eye-Opening Investigation into the Most Baffling Events of All Time

  by Paul Aron

  Who built Stonehenge? Why did the pharaohs build the pyramids? Did Richard III kill the princes in the tower? Could the Titanic have been saved? Did Hitler murder his niece? PRAISE FOR UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF HISTORY "Like a sleuth, Aron pieces together the possible answers . . . It’s an engaging way to learn more about history and the new evidence that sheds light on... (more)
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  Mischief in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

  by Joan Hess

  Police Chief Arly Hanks finds her small town, Maggody, has some new inhabitants when she returns from vacation. Soon, Robin Buchanon, local prostitute and moonshiner, disappears, and Arly finds her bloody body at the edge of a marijuana field.
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  Mortal Remains in Maggody

  by Joan Hess

  When a Hollywood production company comes to Maggody, Arkansas, to shoot a film, everyone is starstruck, even Chief of Police Arly Hanks--who soon has her hands full investigating a series of arson fires.
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  Much Ado in Maggody

  by Joan Hess

  When Johanna Mae Nookim is denied the request to file sex discrimination charges, soon half the women in Maggody band together. Brother Verber thinks they are practicing witchcraft, but everybody learns the truth when the women stage a demonstration. Next, the bank turns to flames, and the head teller is found dead.
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  O Little Town of Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

  by Joan Hess

  When country music superstar Matt Montana returns to his small, depressed Arkansas hometown for a holiday benefit concert, murder undermines the celebration, prompting Arly Hanks to investigate. Reprint. K. NYT.
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  Claire Malloy: Book 7

  Death by the Light of the Moon

  by Joan Hess

  Things that go bump in the Bayou... For bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy getting a root canal beats going to a Malloy family reunion. But it is time her fifteen-year-old daughter Caron visits her deceased father's relatives. Now Claire and Caron have arrived at Malloy Manor, a run-down mansion in Louisiana's bayou country...where the mosquitoes are big enough to barbecue, the swamp is crawling with... (more)
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  Claire Malloy: Book 14

  Out on a Limb

  by Joan Hess

  Faberville bookstore owner Claire Malloy is ruminating over the state of her love life when she gets disturbing news. Elderly Miss Emily Parchester is up a tree. Chained to an old oak, packing a thermos of tea and a gun, the retired schoolteacher is ready to go down with the ship, or rather the tree, before she'll let another historic piece of Farberville be bulldozed in the name of "progress," i.e., developer... (more)
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  Claire Malloy: Book 6

  Roll over and Play Dead

  by Joan Hess

  Murder is going to the dogs. . . Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire. Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they are. Everything is just ducky...until they vanish. Other neighbors' pets have also disappeared, and no doubt a dognapper is on the prowl. . . ... (more)
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  Muletrain to Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery (Arly Hanks Mysteries (Paperback))

  by Joan Hess

  Away down south in Maggody, Arkansas, Police Chief Arly Hanks, "the sharpest small-town sleuth since Miss Marple" ( Kirkus Reviews ), must keep the peace when the Civil War -- or a darn good replication -- masks a modern-day murderer! Muletrain to Maggody A few dozen die-hard Yanks and Rebs, a dewy-eyed belle, and a general or two have rolled into town...and so has a documentary film crew, to re-enact a piece... (more)