Claire Malloy #15
St. Martin's Press
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Featuring: Claire Malloy
320 pages ISBN: 0312989067 EAN: 9780312989064 Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally
quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas–an enterprise
which provides the verging-on-meager living for her and
her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter Caron. So when
emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their
apartment for a few weeks, they are in no financial
position to put themselves up in style and Claire is
thrilled to accept a customer’s offer to let them stay at
her well-stocked, well-equipped palatial home while she is
traveling.
Of course, nothing is ever that easy. No
sooner do Claire and Caron ensconce themselves than
disquieting events start to occur–dubious people show up
looking for the ‘traveling’ owner of the house; the owner
herself turns out not to be who she claimed and is now
seemingly on the run; and a dead body keeps turning up–and
subsequently disappearing–around the grounds of the house.
Determined, for once, to stay out of the mysterious
doings, Claire’s hand is finally forced when the
disappearing body turns out to be only the first corpse to
turn up…