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21) Blackbird
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small town in Ark-La-Tex, Detective Jim Bonham has been assigned to a new case. On the outskirts of the town, a woman has been found brutalized and nailed to a cross. Bonham recognizes her immediately: it is Dr. Deborah Gold, one of the town's psychologists. The questions pile up quickly. How many perpetrators would it have taken to commit this atrocity? Why was a Roman coin found at the foot of the body? And why a murder as gruesome and cruel...
22) Strangled prose
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her to it... Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is found dead in her home--strangled with a tightly knotted...
Author
Series
Maggody volume 13
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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 schemea charity golf tournament. This presents a bit of a challenge, since no one in Maggody plays golf and there is no course. But when the prize for the first hole-in-one is announceda top of the line bass boatnearly everyone in town develops a new-found...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 13
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is hospitalized, local bookseller Claire Malloy finds herself in the midst of a barely controlled disaster. Not only do each of the writers...
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Veronica "Ronnie" Landonwood is phoning from Chicago to ask Claire for help in tracking down a blackmailer who threatens to expose her past. Ronnie had been in jail for murder but has rehabilitated herself into a prestigious scientist with a shot at a Nobel Prize - unless her sordid past hits the tabloids. Now she wants Claire to go back to Acapulco, where, as a teenager, she killed a famous Hollywood producer who tried to rape her. This eerie call...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Spanning fifteen years in the lives of three friends from a fateful day in high school that forever links the three women, this novel follows Leigh, Sarah, and Chandler as they pursue their individual goals and dreams, forever bound together by their shared past.
28) Liberating Paris
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The collapse of a marriage comes as a seismic shock to a group of six high school friends now on the verge of middle age.
29) Mummy dearest
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
On a honeymoon trip to Luxor, Egypt, with her new husband, her teenage daughter Caron, and Caron's best friend Inez, Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy finds her honeymoon disrupted when the two girls are chased through back alleys by unknown pursuers.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
c1976.
Language
English
Description
Ford's mesmerizing first novel is the story of two godless pilgrims. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in the service of a destructive passion. Sam Newell is seeking the missing piece of himself. When these men converge, on an uncharted island in the Mississippi, each discovers the thing he's looking for--amid a conflagration of violence that's as shocking as it is inevitable.
32) Busy bodies
Author
Series
Claire Malloy mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
When an artist stages a display of environmental art on his front lawn, including a half-naked woman, a small Arkansas town is shocked. Next, someone sets fire to the house, which kills the artist's wife. Now who would do such a thing? Bookseller Claire Malloy investigates.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The jailhouse lawyer: A young lawyer takes on the judge who is destroying her hometown--and ends up in jail herself. In picture-perfect Erva, Alabama, the most serious crimes are misdemeanors. Speeding tickets. Shoplifting. Contempt of court. Then why is the jail so crowded? And why are so few prisoners released? There's only one place to learn the truth behind these incriminating secrets. Sometimes the best education a lawyer can get is a short stretch...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
Jacob and Noah Ingledew trudge 600 miles from their native Tennessee to found Stay More -- a small town nestled in a narrow valley that winds among the Arkansas Ozarks and into the reader's imagination. The Ingledew saga -- which follows six generations of Stay Morons through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving -- is the heart of Donald Harington's jubilant, picaresque novel The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks.
36) The dirty South
Author
Series
Charlie Parker thriller volume 18
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"John Connolly returns with a prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case"--
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Her husbands were many, her lovers legion. Temperance Moon both awed and scandalized the Arkansas Territory with her beauty, brains and brass -- and died, brutally gunned down on a muddy road. When the prime suspect is found murdered, the case is abruptly closed. Although she runs the most famous whorehouse west of Memphis, Miss Jewel Moon is not made in her mother's image. Unsatisfied with the verdict, she hires crusty ex-marshal Oscar Schiller to...
Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
What begins with a gruesome and impossible murder soon spirals into hallucinatory waking nightmares for hotel house detective Jojo in World War II Arkansas. Black magic and a terrifying Luciferian carnival boil up to a surreal finale for the town of Litchfield, and Jojo Walker is forced to face his own identity in ways he could never have imagined
39) Eventide
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907. When their father descends into madness after the death of their mother, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. In Wheeler, eleven-year-old Lilah is quickly adopted, but seventeen-year-old Verity is not. Desperate to stay close to her sister, Verity indentures herself as a farmhand. But even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can't completely distract her from the sense...
Author
Series
Shiloh legacy volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
The Shiloh Legacy series covers the lives of four young soldiers and their families through these great events: the end of World War I in France, the return of the soldiers to America, the Roaring Twenties, the stock-market crash, the resulting Great Depression, and the rebuilding of lives that must follow. Yet with all the racial, social, and cultural intolerance that marked the dayseemingly immovable mountains in the lives of these charactersGod...
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