Joan Hess: 48 books
Damsels in Distress
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
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...
by Joan Hess
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
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...
Roll Over and Play Dead
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2003
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...
The Arly Hanks Mysteries Volume One
Malice in Maggody, Mischief in Maggody, and Much Ado in Maggody
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
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...
The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1986
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 Malloy, who decides to bring her petulant daughter Caron along for some detecting. As the guests settle...
The Goodbye Body
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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,...
Claire Malloy Mysteries 1-3
Strangled Prose; The Murder at the Mimosa Inn; Dear Miss Demeanor
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the small and colorful town of Farberville, Arkansas, widow and single mother Claire Malloy struggles with keeping her small local bookstore in the black, with the drama of her young teenage daughter Caron (WHO SPEAKS IN ALL CAPS), the handsome local police Lt. Peter Rosen, and murder. And at least...
A Holly, Jolly Murder
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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,...
Poisoned Pins
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
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...
A Diet to Die For
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2002
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...
by Joan Hess
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Murder is no laughing matter—especially when it comes to marriage. So before Luanne gets in too deep with her new flame, a dentist named Dick, she'd like her best friend to do a background check. Did Dick murder his two previous wives? That's what Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy...
Death by the Light of the Moon
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
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...
Muletrain to Maggody
An Arly Hanks Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Under the benign watch of Police Chief Arly Hanks, things are pretty quiet in the sleepy Arkansas town of Maggody these days. Not even the prospect of a historical society-funded Civil War documentary on the locally touted (albeit historically insignificant) Skirmish at Cotter's Ridge of 1863 does...
A Conventional Corpse
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2001
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 major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original...