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, Arkansasβan 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 customerβs 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 occurβdubious people show up looking for the βtravelingβ 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 upβand subsequently disappearingβaround the grounds of the house. Determined, for once, to stay out of the mysterious doings, Claireβs hand is finally forced when the disappearing body turns out to be only the first corpse to turn upβ¦