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Author
Series
Hattie Davish mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the eve of the heated presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany and getting to know the town's handsome doctor. When the temperance leader Mother Trevelyan is murdered, it's easy to point fingers. Now that she's working for a dead woman, Hattie turns to her trusty typewriter...
3) The witness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
In the hotly contested election of 1824, the machinations of Henry Clay to become the new president of the United States leave the nation on the brink of national disaster as Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams form a political alliance against Clay.
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Farberville, Arkansas is normally a quiet college town, where bookseller Claire Malloy tends her small store and raises her somewhat dramatic teenage daughter Caron. But this week, it's gone a bit out of control. A local group of activists calling themselves the Farberville Green Party is protesting a developer's plan to remove a copse of trees by having retired schoolteacher Miss Emily Parchester camp out in one of them while chained to it by the...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Staying at the palatial home of a wealthy customer when her own meager apartment is rendered unlivable, bookstore owner Claire Malloy becomes increasingly convinced that the house's owner is not who she claims to be.
Author
Series
Maggody volume 14
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Anticipating the filming of a Civil War documentary, Maggody citizens become excited over rumors that Confederate gold may be hidden in a local cave, prompting a flood of outside visitors including an apparently murderous ghost.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
Author
Series
Maggody volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
In Arkansas, the appearance of crop circles in a cornfield puts Maggody, pop. 775, on the map. The novel follows police chief Arly Hanks as he copes with hysteria, the media, sightings of aliens and the murder of a ufologist.
Author
Series
Maggody volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
When a local retirement home is transformed into an exclusive rehabilitation facility, the small town of Maggody is torn by rumors about displaced mental patients, a situation that forces police chief Arly Hanks to separate truth from gossip.
Author
Series
Benni Harper mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Soon after arriving in Sugartree, Arkansaswhere she spent many lazy, languid childhood summersfolk art expert Benni Harper discovers that there's something seriously sinister brewing in this usually-peaceful town.
Author
Series
Maggody volume 6
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Arly (aka Ariel) Hanks, Chief of Police of Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), has been known to break out in hives just thinking about Manhattan. Her idea of a good time is running a speed trap at the edge of town, stomping around the ridge looking for Raz Buchanan's still, and having the blue plate special at Ruby Bee's Bar and Grill on Saturday night. So the last place on earth Arly wanted to be was back in Manhattan with its bright lights, memories...
Author
Series
Maggody volume 9
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Of course, most lawbreaking in this neck of the woods has to do with an illegal still or Raz Buchanon's pet pig getting loose. And the biggest crime, according to her mother and friends, is Arly's own unmarried state. But that's before the motorcade of televangelist and faith healer Malachi Hope rolls into town and sets up a tent revival that promises to put Maggody on the map...and put Arly on the hot seat.
19) Simple Jess
Author
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Jesse Best is a simple man with simple ambitions, his own dog, his own gun and a woman. In this very special return to Marrying Stone, Jesse gets his chance at all three. Althea Winsloe is a widow with a son. All she wants is to give her boy a better childhood than her own. But a young woman sitting on a prime piece of farmland is bound to draw attention from her envious neighbors and swains on every side. Interfering relatives and the confession...
Author
Series
Maggody volume 12
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
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 virtual chaos. Students are caught sneaking peeks at pornographic Web sites, and compromising photos of prominent Maggody citizens are being flashed across the display monitors. But when the body of a promiscuous young woman is found...
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