After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case. Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she’s safe as the town’s first female chief of police–until the husband of one of the local … one of the local barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And that’s not all. An EPA official with ties to polluting the local fishing hole has suddenly vanished off the face of the earth.
As if two manhunts aren’t enough to contend with, a body has been discovered at the pay-by-the-hour Flamingo Motel, shot clean through the neck with an arrow. For some reason, Maggody’s residents–all 755 of them–have gone tight-lipped, stonewalling Arly’s investigations, and Arly hasn’t a soul to trust but her half-wit deputy. Now, as Maggody’s finest, she’ll have to show a little muscle and a lot of cunning to curtail the inhospitable mountain malice that’s overtaken her town. And she’ll have to watch her own back every step of the way.
From Agatha Award-winning author Joan Hess, Malice in Maggody is the novel that introduced police chief Arly Hanks–the indomitable sleuth of the popular and long-running Maggody series.
Malice in Maggody is the 1st book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
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Very fun to read, lol, kept me from sleeping Because I just needed to know what happens next just don’t take anything serious. Just have fun..read.
This book had many funny parts. The plot was not very intricate. It contained many cliches about people who live in small towns.
I think Joan Hess is the Queen of Humorous Mysteries. With her zany characters, dry humor and plots that twist and turn she is unbeatable. I have read almost all of her books and found them to be all 5 star page turners that keep you laughing so hard that you tear up and can hardly see to turn the page.
Love this series..never fail to make me laugh..The characters are great and the plots are fun and usually have a twist.
This series is laugh-out-loud funny!
Loved the whole series.. wish there were more!!!