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Joan Hess

JOAN HESS is the author of both the Claire Malloy and the Maggody mystery series. She is a winner of the American Mystery Award, a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Works

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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...
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A Holly, Jolly Murder
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
Minotaur Books
THE GIFT THAT GIVES ON GIVING. . . With Farberville’s college on holiday break, Claire Malloy’s bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the silence...
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The Goodbye Body
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
St. Martin's Paperbacks
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...
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Out on a Limb
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
Minotaur Books
An environmental protester camped out in a tree and a baby left on Claire Malloy's doorstep are just two of the predicaments that Malloy must face in this...
Joan Hess
Photo: Charles E. Roberts

Bestseller

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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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