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"Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter Rosen. Still the owner of the Book Depot, Claire has passed the day-to-day running of it on to her very efficient employees. With Caron inching ever...
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English
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Leave it to Claire Malloy to turn married life and a simple volunteer opportunity into a murder mystery. Hoping to help her daughter and her daughter's friend improve their resumes, Claire signs on as an ESL tutor and quickly ends up on the nonprofit's Board of Directors. When vandalism and embezzlement claims lead to a Russian woman's murder, Peter calls on Claire to help solve the mystery.
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Language
English
Description
Arkansas bookseller-sleuth Claire Malloy's holiday season is turning out to be somewhat less than jolly when she becomes involved with a clan of murderous Druids, and her daughter, who has a Christmas job as a reindeer at the mall, is slapped with a million dollar lawsuit for trying to control an unruly child.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finding what she hopes will be an ideal house to share with her new husband and teenage daughter, Claire Malloy learns that the property's previous owner died under suspicious circumstances and that a real estate agent has gone missing.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Arkansas bookstore owner Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron, forced out of their apartment by emergency repairs, are thrilled to accept an offer to stay at the palatial home of a customer who is traveling, but a series of unsettling events, including the recurring appearance and disappearance of a dead body, sets off Claire's sleuthing instincts once again.
8) Busy bodies
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
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
10) Mummy dearest
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bookseller Claire Malloy plans to spend her honeymoon in Cairo shopping, relaxing, and taking in the sights, but instead is drawn into the investigation of the kidnapping of a college student by two men on horseback.
11) Tickled to death
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Claire Malloy investigates her friend's lover who is believed to have killed his first two wives, the investigation becomes dangerous.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bookseller Claire Malloy, unsuccessful in her attempt to talk Emily Parchester down from the tree the retired teacher has camped out in to protest a developer's plan to clear cut the land, decides to investigate when the developer is murdered and his daughter, a teenager mother, is accused of the crime.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When scientist Veronica Landonwood's shot at winning the Nobel Prize is threatened by a blackmailer who knows all about her sordid past, she calls upon her cousin, amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, for help. Unfortunately, Claire's inquiries seem to be leaving a path of dead bodies and she has reason to believe the next one may be her own.
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