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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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The Goodbye Body by Joan Hess

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Also by Joan Hess:

The Painted Queen, June 2018
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The Painted Queen, August 2017
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Malice in Maggody, February 2017
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Martians in Maggody, June 2016
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Pride V. Prejudice, March 2016
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The Merry Wives of Maggody, February 2011
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Closely Akin To Murder (Claire Malloy Mysteries), October 2009
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Poisoned Pins, April 2007
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Damsel in Distress, April 2007
Hardcover
A Really Cute Corpse, February 2007
Mass Market Paperback
Dear Miss Demeanor, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Death by the Light of the Moon, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
A Diet to Die For, February 2007
Mass Market Paperback
A Holly, Jolly Murder, November 2006
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Goodbye Body, April 2006
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Out on a Limb, November 2003
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Roll Over and Play Dead, May 2003
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
A Conventional Corpse, August 2001
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn, October 1999
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
Strangled Prose, November 1998
Paperback (reprint)
Closely Akin to Murder, June 1997
Paperback (reprint)
Busy Bodies, May 1996
Paperback (reprint)
Tickled to Death, May 1995
Paperback (reprint)
Deader Homes & Gardens, November 0000
Paperback / e-Book

THE GOODBYE BODY
By: Joan Hess

Claire Malloy #15
St. Martin's Press
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Featuring: Claire Malloy
320 pages
ISBN: 0312989067
EAN: 9780312989064
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Mystery Woman Sleuth

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 β€˜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…

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