Books
- Awards Coming Soon New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers Awards New at Macmillan Top Sellers
  
  Arts and Photography Biography and Memoirs Business and Investing Comics and Graphic Novels Cooking, Food and Wine Crafts Entertainment Health, Mind & Body
  
  History Home and Garden Literature and Fiction Mystery and Thrillers Nonfiction Outdoors Parenting and Families Poetry
  
  Reference Religion and Spirituality Romance Science Science Fiction and Fantasy Sports Teen Travel
  Children's Books Academic Books
  
  All Categories
  
  African American Interest Books - Middle Grade Children Authors Who Believe in This I Believe Books For Boys ages Junior High and Up Character Education Books for Children Junior High and Up Classic Sports Books Father's Day Books
  All Collections
Authors
- Tours & Events All Authors
Publishers
- Farrar, Straus, and Giroux FSG Hardcovers FSG Paperbacks Hill & Wang Faber & Faber First Second Henry Holt & Co. Henry Holt Hardcovers Henry Holt Paperbacks Metropolitan Books Times Books Macmillan Audio Behind the Wheel Nature Publishing Group Palgrave Macmillan
  
  Picador Quick and Dirty Tips Scientific American St. Martin's Press St. Martin's Minotaur Thomas Dunne Books Tor/Forge Tor Books Forge Books Orb Books Tor/Seven Seas
  Bedford, Freeman and Worth Bedford/St. Martin’s W.H. Freeman
  
  Worth Publishers BFW High School i>clicker Hayden-McNeil Palgrave Macmillan
  FSG Books for Young Readers Feiwel & Friends Holt Books for Young Readers Kingfisher Roaring Brook Priddy Books Starscape/Tor Teen Square Fish
Services
- About Macmillan Publishers Booksellers Academic Library Catalogs

Claire Malloy Mysteries

Joan Hess lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She is the Agatha-Award winning author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks Mysteries.

Photo: Charles E. Roberts

About The Author

Displaying 1-14 of 14

Hardcover :
$24.95 Buy

Mummy Dearest

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #17

Joan Hess 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,...

Excerpt:

Read

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

Damsels in Distress

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #16

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

The Goodbye Body

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #15

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

Out on a Limb

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #14

Joan Hess 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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

A Conventional Corpse

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #13

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

A Holly, Jolly Murder

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #12

Joan Hess 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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

Poisoned Pins

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #8

Joan Hess 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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

Death by the Light of the Moon

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #7

Joan Hess 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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$5.99 Buy

Roll Over and Play Dead

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #6

Joan Hess 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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.50 Buy

A Diet to Die For

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #5

Joan Hess St. Martin's Minotaur

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

A Really Cute Corpse

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #4

Joan Hess St. Martin's Minotaur

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$5.99 Buy

Dear Miss Demeanor

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #3

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,...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

The Murder At The Mimosa Inn

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #2

Joan Hess St. Martin's Minotaur

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...

Mass Market Paperbound :
$6.99 Buy

Strangled Prose

A Claire Malloy Mystery

Claire Malloy Mysteries #1

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...

Displaying 1-14 of 14

Sign up to receive information about new releases, author appearances, special offers, all related to your favorite books and authors.
Sign Up Now!

Claire Malloy Mysteries

You May Also Be Interested In