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Joan Hess

JOAN HESS is the author of both the Arly Hanks and the Claire Malloy mystery series, most recently Mummy Dearest. She now lives in Austin, Texas.

Works

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Deader Homes and Gardens
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
Claire Malloy discovers that house-hunting can be murder—literally—in the latest entry in Joan Hess's "wildly entertaining series." (Mystery Scene) Back...
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Tickled to Death
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
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...
  
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The Merry Wives of Maggody
An Arly Hanks Mystery
Arly Hanks Mystery

Minotaur Books
Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is perceived of as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanan seeks to change that perception with...
  
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Closely Akin to Murder
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
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...
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Busy Bodies
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
Since his recent arrival, avant-garde artist Zeno Gorgias has been turning heads and attracting gawkers in the otherwise tame college town of Farberville...
  
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Mummy Dearest
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
Claire 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...
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Damsels in Distress
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries

St. Martin's Paperbacks
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...
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Poisoned Pins
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries

Minotaur Books
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...
Joan Hess
Photo: Charles E. Roberts

Bestseller

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The Merry Wives of Maggody

Minotaur Books
Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is perceived as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But the mayor’s wife, Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon, seeks to change that...

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