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 local police department. Now they are on their honeymoon in Luxor, Egy...

Since his recent arrival, avant-garde artist Zeno Gorgias has been turning heads and attracting gawkers in the otherwise tame college town of Farberville Arkansas. Zeno's "interactive" art—featuring an undressed woman loun...

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, Arkans...

Claire Malloy, Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth, feels the pull of summer doldrums until a predicament sends her to a posh lakefront community. Her best friend, Luanne, is having an affair with Dick Cissel, a dentist who just ma...

Arkansas bookstore owner Claire Mallory's twelfth case has her investigating the murder of local physician and cult leader Nicholas Chunder. Claire gets an education in a variety of alternative religions as she sorts out the clues.

Deader Homes and GardensJoan HessNow that she's back from her honeymoon, Claire Malloy must face the reality of her home life: It's too close for comfort. A two-bedroom apartment is a formula for disaster for her new husband, Police C...

Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate....and it's not jumping around in an aerobics class.Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Farberville, Arkansas's hottest ...

Outstanding...A fun-to-read mixture of homicide and humor.'THE PITTSBURGH PRESSIn this, the seventh adventure in the Claire Malloy series, Claire discovers a lot about her late, unlamented husband. The viperish family matriarch, Miss ...

Farberville, Arkansas, is playing host to its first-ever mystery convention with five major mystery writers-each representing a different subgenre of the mystery world-making the trek to the local college for 'Murder Comes to Campus.'...

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 bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, who decides to bring her petulant d...

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. IIt's a hellish assignment sure to ha...

When someone poisons the tamale sauce intended for the grand opening of Jim Bob's Super Saver store, everyone in Maggody, Arkansas, is certain there is a maniac on the loose, and Chief of Police Ariel 'Arly' Hanks must investigate. Or...

When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award–winning author. When small-town police chief Arly Hanks returns to Maggody, Arkansas, a...

Away down south in Maggody, Arkansas, Police Chief Arly Hanks, 'the sharpest small-town sleuth since Miss Marple' (Kirkus Reviews), must keep the peace when the Civil War -- or a darn good replication -- masks a modern-day murderer!Mu...

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 her latest scheme—a charity golf tournament. This presents a bit of a cha...

"A wildly entertaining series."—Mystery SceneIn Murder as a Second Language by award-winning mystery author Joan Hess, longtime bookseller and single mother Claire Malloy has recently married Deputy Chief Peter Rosen, moved out of h...

"Claire Malloy is one of the most engaging narrators in mystery."-Deadly Pleasures Claire Malloy has always been known in Farberville, Arkansas, as the owner of the Book Depot whose teenage daughter, Caron, speaks in A...

In Malpractice in Maggody, Joan Hess’s sixteenth book in the Maggody series, a murderer plagues the star-studded rehab center in a case that only sheriff Arly Hanks can crack. Apart from small-town feuds and church scandal, t...