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  • 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

    $15.19 USD

  • 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

    $15.19 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • The Arly Hanks Mysteries Volume Two

    Madness in Maggody, Mortal Remains in Maggody, and Maggody in Manhattan

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

    $25.19 USD

  • 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

    $8.69 USD

  • 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

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mortal Remains in Maggody

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 5 - The Arly Hanks Mysteries
    Another "great" cozy mystery set in outrageous Maggody, Arkansas, a town so strange that even Hollywood filmmakers can't believe it's real ( Library Journal).From the Kwik-Stoppe-Shoppe to the Pot O' Gold Mobile Home Park, there isn't much glamour in Maggody . . . but this flyspeck Arkansas town is about to become famous. When a Hollywood production company chooses Maggody as a backdrop for an X ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Misery Loves Maggody

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 11 - The Arly Hanks Mysteries
    The madcap citizens of Maggody, Arkansas, descend on Graceland, and a bizarre murder mystery forces police chief Arly Hanks to pay homage to the King.When Chief of Police Arly Hanks came home to Maggody, Arkansas, after a bad divorce, she thought life here would be simpler than it was in New York City. But it's been one insane episode after another, and the latest eruption of chaos may just drive ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $17.29 USD

  • 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

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $14.39 USD

  • Martians in Maggody

    by Joan Hess ...
    Series Book 8 - The Arly Hanks Mysteries
    Police chief Arly Hanks tries to keep her head when the people of Maggody get UFO fever in this uproarious cozy mystery.Life is so boring in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, the locals have resorted to reading supermarket tabloids, gobbling up every rumor of wolf men, zombies, and creatures from outer space they can get their hands on. And as the only sane woman in town, Chief of Police Arly ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook