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  • Dear Miss Demeanor

    A Claire Malloy Mystery

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 3 - Claire Malloy Mysteries
    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 you to enjoy this delightful Claire Malloy mystery, and to discover why Sharyn McCrumb calls Joan Hess "the patron saint of comic mystery."At Farberville High, it's reading, writing...and murder.Who knows ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Strangled Prose

    A Claire Malloy Mystery

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 1 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her to it...Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Pride v. Prejudice

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 20 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to her ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Goodbye Body

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 15 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas - an enterprise which provides the verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter Caron. So when emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial position to put themselves up in style and Claire is thrilled to accept a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Really Cute Corpse

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 4 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    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 queen through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would gladly be fired from. Now, already fending off a hostile theater owner, and overly-agressive personal ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • Damsels in Distress

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 16 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart racing. But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulant teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (or face the horror of doing homework over the summer) and her fiancé, Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, away, Claire ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Closely Akin to Murder

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 11 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    At first it seems like a prank. How could Veronica Landonwood be the voice on the other end of the phone when she died three decades ago? But as Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy is about to find out, her cousin "Ronnie" is very much alive—and in trouble. And could use Claire's help…Today, Ronnie is a renowned scientist living in Chicago. But when she was a teenager, she had a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Diet to Die For

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 5 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate...and it's not jumping a round in an aerobics class. Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Faberville, Arkansas's hottest new fitness center. Personally, Claire thinks the best way for Maribeth to lose 160 unnecessary pounds would be to dump her abusive husband. But while Claire's ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Big Foot Stole My Wife

    And Other Stories

    by Joan Hess ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Maggody and the Moonbeams

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 13 - The Arly Hanks Mysteries
    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 ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Arly Hanks Mysteries Volume One

    Malice in Maggody, Mischief in Maggody, and Much Ado in Maggody

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series series The Arly Hanks Mysteries
    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 ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • A Conventional Corpse

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 13 - The Claire Malloy Mysteries
    An Arkansas bookseller must become a sleuth when death disrupts a local mystery convention in this "first-rate mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).Farberville, Arkansas, is playing host to its first-ever mystery convention with five major mystery writers—each representing a different subgenre of the mystery world—making the trek to the local college for "Murder Comes to Campus." Local bookseller Claire ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD