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All works by Joan Hess

Related: Amateur Sleuth, Cozy

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.

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Deader Homes and Gardens

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#18 of 20)

Joan Hess 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

Joan Hess 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 #16

Joan Hess 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

Joan Hess 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

Joan Hess 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 (#17 of 20)

Joan Hess 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 (#16 of 20)

Joan Hess 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 (#8 of 20)

Joan Hess 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 Diet to Die For

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#5 of 20)

Joan Hess St. Martin's Paperbacks

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...

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A Holly, Jolly Murder

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#12 of 20)

Joan Hess 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 (#15 of 20)

Joan Hess 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 (#14 of 20)

Joan Hess 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...

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Death by the Light of the Moon

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#7 of 20)

Joan Hess Minotaur Books

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 (#6 of 20)

Joan Hess Minotaur Books

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...

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A Really Cute Corpse

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#4 of 20)

Joan Hess A Minotaur Classic Mystery

When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant...

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A Conventional Corpse

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#13 of 20)

Joan Hess St. Martin's Paperbacks

Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes...

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Dear Miss Demeanor

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#3 of 20)

Joan Hess St. Martin's Paperbacks

Agatha Award-winning author Joan Hess, the prolific creator of the Claire Malloy and Maggody mysteries, is beloved for her clever sleuths, quirky characters,...

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The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#2 of 20)

Joan Hess Minotaur Books

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...

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Strangled Prose

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries (#1 of 20)

Joan Hess St. Martin's Paperbacks

She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her tow it... Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea...

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