Arly Hanks mysteries
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 1
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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 barmaids escapes from state prison and heads for town. And...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 2
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When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award–winning author. When small-town police chief Arly Hanks returns to Maggody, Arkansas, after vacation, she finds the population has risen to a booming 802. Among the newbies: Madame Celeste, the psychic who's holding locals in thrall with her predictions of doom; a handsome new high school guidance counselor;...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 3
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A hilarious police procedural set in the strangest town in the Ozarks, where whip-smart sheriff Arly Hanks does everything she can to keep the peace. Nothing ever happens in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755. Aside from handling the occasional barroom brawl or exploding still, Chief of Police Arly Hanks spends her days sipping coffee and squashing flies. She returned to Maggody two years ago, licking her wounds after a bad Manhattan divorce, and she...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 4
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A new supermarket in the small town of Maggody threatens several other small business owners. When supermarket tampering results in death, the police investigate.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 5
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When a Hollywood production company comes to Maggody, Arkansas, to shoot a film, everyone is starstruck, even Chief of Police Arly Hanks--who soon has her hands full investigating a series of arson fires.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 6
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Arly Hanks, Chief of Police of Maggody, Arkansas becomes involved in a murder and a cooking contest in New York.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 7
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Country music, greed, and the unique madness of Maggody, Arkansas, collide in this delightful cozy mystery starring unflappable police chief Arly Hanks. Matt Montana is the favorite son of sleepy Maggody, Arkansas. With the voice of an angel and a smile as charming as that of the devil, he's made a name for himself under the bright lights of Nashville and become one of the most famous faces in country music. Meanwhile, Maggody has sunk into the worst...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 9
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Televangelist Malachi Hope is performing nightly miracles in Maggody, Arkansas, but his plan to build a Christian theme park in the small town plants seeds of greed in some hearts leading to the murder of one of the faithful and sending police chief Arly Hanks on a mission for truth.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 10
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Police Chief Arly Hanks has her hands full when the usually peaceful little Ozarks town of Maggody is invaded by a group of survivalists who decide to play war games during the first weekend of hunting season and one of them gets killed.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 11
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The madcap citizens of Maggody, Arkansas, descend on Graceland, and a bizarre murder mystery forces police chief Arly Hanks to pay homage to the King. When Chief of Police Arly Hanks came home to Maggody, Arkansas, after a bad divorce, she thought life here would be simpler than it was in New York City. But it's been one insane episode after another, and the latest eruption of chaos may just drive poor Arly around the bend. After all, Maggody is more...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 12
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When the uproarious town of Maggody, Arkansas, plugs into the Internet, the digital age turns deadly. Aside from the odd stolen dog or vandalized lawn ornament, there's been no recent crime in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755, and that's how Chief of Police Arly Hanks likes it. Things have been so quiet she's taken to sitting in on school-board meetings, and she's doing just this when the high school announces the new computer lab, which will be...
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A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she's never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers...
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 14
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c2004
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The peace is disturbed in sleepy Maggody, Arkansas when the historical society decides to fund a documentary on the town's role in the Civil War, and Police Chief Arly Hanks finds herself with chaos and murder on her hands when word gets out that a cache of Confederate gold is stashed in a local cave.
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Arly Hanks mysteries volume 15
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c2006
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Police chief Arly Hanks returns from vacation to find her sleepy Arkansas town in an uproar after a mysterious outsider transforms the local old folks' home into an exclusive rehabilitation center that excludes the townsfolk and raises serious questions about what is happening behind closed doors.
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Arly Hanks, sheriff in Maggody, Arkansas, cannot wait for the chaos to end when Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon, hoping to change the small town's image, stages a charity golf tournament, but things go from bad to worse when the winner, Tommy Ridner, is found dead in the seat of the bass boat he won for sinking a hole-in-one.