A Really Cute Corpse

About the author

Joan Hess is the author of both the Claire Malloy and the Maggody mystery series. She is a winner of the American Mystery Award, a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Summary

When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queen through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would gladly be fired from. Now, already fending off a hostile theatre owner, and overly-aggressive personal trainer, an incontinent show-dog, a fifteen-year-old daughter with more growing pains than she can count, and a talent contest in need of some talent, Claire must face one more problem--someone is trying to kill the reigning Miss Thurberfest.
When a ghastly murder scene signals the culprit's success, Claire's investigative instincts take over, but when she digs too close to the truth, the race is on to discover the killer's identity before Claire herself is crowned the next victim...

Foreword

A Clare Malloy mystery

Additional text

This book is wonderful.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Hess
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781447278948
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7894-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: Claire Malloy Mysteries; Claire Malloy mysteries
• Subjects: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Crime & mystery, FICTION / Humorous / General