The Merry Wives of Maggody

2011-02 Fiction

Author : Joan Hess
Release : 2011-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis The Merry Wives of Maggody by : Joan Hess

Download or read book The Merry Wives of Maggody written by Joan Hess. This book was released on 2011-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return, after a three-year absence, of Sheriff Arly Hanks and the strange, misbegotten town of Maggody, Arkansas. Arly is facing a complicated murder investigation for which darned near everyone in town is a suspect.

Merry Wives of Maggody

2009 Arkansas

Author : Joan Hess
Release : 2009
Genre : Arkansas
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Merry Wives of Maggody by : Joan Hess

Download or read book Merry Wives of Maggody written by Joan Hess. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the winner of the local golf tournament is found dead in his awarded bass boat, Sheriff Arly Hanks has a host of jealous suspects.

Maggody and the Moonbeams

2016-06-07 Fiction

Author : Joan Hess
Release : 2016-06-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 294/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Maggody and the Moonbeams written by Joan Hess. This book was released on 2016-06-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she’s never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers have a mind to get into trouble, there’s nothing a police chief can do but limit the damage. She’s just about got the situation under control when one of the kids finds a body, and all hell breaks loose in classic Maggody manner. The murdered woman sports a shaved head and a white robe, marking her as a Moonbeam, a member of a particularly kooky local cult. And caught between the sect and the law, Arly may be forced to sacrifice what little sanity she has left. Nobody pokes fun at religion quite as effectively as Joan Hess. This is another laugh-out-loud entry in one of the funniest mystery series of all time. Maggody and the Moonbeams is the 13th book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Malice in Maggody

2017-02-14 Fiction

Author : Joan Hess
Release : 2017-02-14
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 464/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Malice in Maggody written by Joan Hess. This book was released on 2017-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case. Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police—until the husband of one of the local barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And that’s not all. An EPA official with ties to polluting the local fishing hole has suddenly vanished off the face of the earth. As if two manhunts aren’t enough to contend with, a body has been discovered at the pay-by-the-hour Flamingo Motel, shot clean through the neck with an arrow. For some reason, Maggody’s residents—all 755 of them—have gone tight-lipped, stonewalling Arly’s investigations, and Arly hasn’t a soul to trust but her half-wit deputy. Now, as Maggody’s finest, she’ll have to show a little muscle and a lot of cunning to curtail the inhospitable mountain malice that’s overtaken her town. And she’ll have to watch her own back every step of the way. From Agatha Award–winning author Joan Hess, Malice in Maggody is the novel that introduced police chief Arly Hanks—the indomitable sleuth of the popular and long-running Maggody series. Malice in Maggody is the 1st book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction

2014-12-04 Literary Criticism

Author : David Geherin
Release : 2014-12-04
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 28X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction written by David Geherin. This book was released on 2014-12-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings. There they can take advantage of distinct facets of small town life--a sense of community, slower pace of life, proximity to nature--and yet deal with social, economic and environmental issues. Because crimes in small communities hit closer to home, the human element can better be emphasized. This book focuses on the work of ten contemporary authors who have placed small towns like Rocksburg, Pennsylvania (K. C. Constantine), West Table, Missouri (Daniel Woodrell), Niniltna, Alaska (Dana Stabenow), Aurora, Minnesota (William Kent Krueger), Paradise, Michigan (Steve Hamilton), Millersburg, Ohio (P. L. Gaus), Heartsdale, Georgia (Karin Slaughter), Millers Kill, New York (Julia Spencer-Fleming), Durant, Wyoming (Craig Johnson), and a number of national parks (Nevada Barr) on the map of American crime fiction.

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