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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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Mummy Dearest
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
St. Martin's Minotaur
After a somewhat long and, at times, strange courtship, Claire Malloy -- a single, widowed mother of a teenage daughter and a bookseller in Farberville,...
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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
St. Martin's Minotaur
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
St. Martin's Minotaur
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
St. Martin's Minotaur
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...
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Death by the Light of the Moon
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
St. Martin's Minotaur
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...
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Roll Over and Play Dead
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
St. Martin's Minotaur
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...
Joan Hess

Bestseller

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Mummy Dearest
A Claire Malloy Mystery
Claire Malloy Mysteries
St. Martin's Minotaur
After a somewhat long and, at times, strange courtship, Claire Malloy -- a single, widowed mother of a teenage daughter and a bookseller in Farberville,...

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