Joan Hess creëerde boeiende mysterieseries, waaronder de geliefde Claire Malloy en Maggody Mysteries. Ze verkende het genre met een onderscheidende stem, oogstte lof en werd voormalig voorzitter van de American Crime Writers League. Onder het pseudoniem Joan Hadley breidde ze haar bijdragen aan de wereld van misdaadfictie verder uit.
The ninth anthology celebrating the cozy mystery includes a tribute to Agatha Cristie, Christie's The Case of the Discontented Soldier, and contributions by such writers as Robert Barnard, Dorothy Cannell, Ann Granger, Teri Holbrook, and Susan Moody. Original.
Enforcing law and order in the Ozarks just got tougher for Arly Hanks: chaperoning the church youth group, she must keep ten hormonally-challenged teens in line on a retreat to Camp Pearly Gates. It's a hellish assignment sure to have Arly and her fellow travelers -- Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon, the mayor's wife; the high school shop teacher; and preacher Brother Verber -- praying for strength. But adolescent angst soon turns to shocking revelation when the body of a white-robed woman turns up on the campgrounds. She belonged to the quirky cult Daughters of the Moon -- and now Arly, fishing for clues with a handsome angler named Jacko, must walk a narrow path to snare a killer who works in mysterious ways....
The arrival of a slick talking, bible thumping evangelist in the little town of Maggody signals the start of another rollicking mystery featuring Police Chief Arly Hanks, one of today's most delightful sleuths! When the townspeople of Maggody start taking the reverend's "cures", Arly keeps a watchful eye. But then two dead bodies turn up, and Arly decides it's time to learn the gospel truth.
Chief of Police Arly Hanks must bring order out of the chaos afflicting Maggody, Arkansas, after a widow allows a group of demented militarists to play war games in her woods in the middle of hunting season. Reprint.
In Manhattan to investigate her friend Ruby Bee's involvement in a murder, Chief of Police Arly Hanks goes behind the scenes at the KoKo-Nut Cooking Contest in order to find a killer. Reprint. NYT. AB.
A chilling telephone call from a long-thought-dead cousin sends amateur sleuth Claire Malloy on the trail of her kin, a prestigious scientist being threatened with blackmail over a sordid period of her life. Reprint.
A honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt ends up with Claire Malloy wrapped up in a most unconventional mystery.
In a small town rife with gossip, police chief Arly Hanks faces the challenge of investigating an exclusive rehabilitation center linked to mysterious deaths. As she navigates the tight-knit community's secrets, Arly must sift through rumors and uncover the truth before more lives are lost. The story blends elements of mystery and small-town dynamics, highlighting the complexities of human behavior and the impact of societal perceptions.
Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to her very efficient employees. With Caron inching ever closer to college, there's but one thing that remains steadfastly unchanged—Claire's astonishing ability to attract, find, or even just randomly stumble across trouble. Summoned for jury duty, the prosecutor on a murder case, harboring a grudge against her husband, decides to humiliate Claire and dismiss her. Having done so in spectacular enough fashion to make the local news, Claire decides that revenge will be the next dish she serves. She hunts down the defendant in the case, a woman accused of murdering her husband, and offers to help prove her innocence. And not just because Claire wants to humiliate the prosecutor. There are only two problems. One—the defendant is looking guiltier by the minute. And two—the worst day imaginable has finally come: Claire's dreaded new mother-in-law is coming to visit and life in prison is starting to look good.
