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Joan Hess

Joan Hess

Joan Hess is the author of the critically acclaimed Maggody mysteries, including the Pocket Books paperbacks Muletrain to Maggody, Maggody and the Moonbeams, Misery Loves Maggody, and murder@maggody.com, nominated for the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award. She has received numerous awards, including the American Mystery Award, the Agatha Award, the Drood Review Readers' Award, and theMacavity Award. A former president of the American Crime Writers League, she is currently president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance, as well as a member of Sisters in Crime. Joan Hess lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Maggody and the Moonbeams
Maggody and the Moonbeams By: Joan Hess
This edition: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2012
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...
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Misery Loves Maggody
Misery Loves Maggody AN ARLY HANKS MYSTERY By: Joan Hess
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: February 27, 2012
"Delectable and continually surprising" (The New York Times Boos Review), Joan Hess's one-of-a-kind mystery series digs up murder and mayhem in the sleepy little town of Maggody, Arkansas. When beleaguered chief of police...
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murder@maggody.com
murder@maggody.com An Arly Hanks Mystery By: Joan Hess
This edition: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publication date: July 13, 2010
To the quirky and colorful residents of Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, "going online" is something one does at the DMV. So when the high school's new computer lab gains access to the Internet, the town is plunged into...
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Malpractice in Maggody An Arly Hanks Mystery By: Joan Hess
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Publication date: December 26, 2006
A part from small-town feuds and church scandal, things have been so quiet in the little Arkansas town of Maggody that even police chief Arly Hanks has found time for a vacation. But she returns to find trouble brewing and...
Other Formats: eBook
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Muletrain to Maggody
Muletrain to Maggody An Arly Hanks Mystery By: Joan Hess
This edition: Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publication date: December 28, 2004
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...
Other Formats: eBook