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A Holly, Jolly Murder

A Holly, Jolly Murder( )
Author: Hess, Joan
Series title:Claire Malloy Mysteries Ser.
ISBN:978-0-312-34916-5
Publication Date:Oct 2006
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Minotaur Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $6.99
Book Description:

THE GIFT THAT GIVES ON GIVING. . . With Farberville's college on holiday break, Claire Malloy's bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the silence is a little old lady looking for volumes on pagan rituals, applied magick, and Celtic mysticism. Claire is intrigued and--miffed that her lover, Farberville police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, says she's in a rut--happily accepts an invitation to welcome the winter solstice at dawn.

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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Southern
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):3.98 x 6.72 x 0.79 Inches
Book Weight:0.308 Pounds
Author Biography
Hess, Joan (Author)
Joan Hess was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1949. She received a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Arkansas in 1971 and a master's degree in education from Long Island University in 1974. For several years, she taught art in a private preschool.

Her first book, Strangled Prose, was published in 1986. She was the author of the Claire Malloy Mystery series and the Arly Hanks Mystery series. A Diet to Die For won the American Mystery Award for best traditional novel of 1989. A short story, Too Much to Bare, received the Agatha Award in 1990 and the McCavity Award in 1991. She also wrote the Theo Bloomer series under the pseudonym Joan Hadley. She finished the final Amelia Peabody novel, The Painted Queen, using the notes of Elizabeth Peters and their conversations to finish the book. It was published in 2017. She died on November 23, 2017 at the age of 68.

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