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A renaissance fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas. Though resistant to getting involved, Claire Malloy, local bookseller and mother of the perpetually petulant teen Caron, finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair. B...

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Main Author: Hess, Joan
Other Authors: Critt, C. J.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: [North Kingstown, R.I.] : BBC Audiobooks America, 2007.
Series:The Claire Malloy mysteries. #16.
Subjects:
Malloy, Claire (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Women booksellers > Fiction.
Fairs > Fiction.
Arkansas > Fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Summary:A renaissance fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas. Though resistant to getting involved, Claire Malloy, local bookseller and mother of the perpetually petulant teen Caron, finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair. But a dark mood falls over the festivities when one of the organizers is a victim of arson, and her body is found in the burned wreckage of her rented house.
Item Description:"Sound library."
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Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 12:04:00.
Playing Time:12:04:00
Format:Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 173453 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Audience:Age group: Adult.
ISBN:9780792748342
0792748344
Author Notes:Joan Hess was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1949. She received a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Arkansas in 1971 and a master's degree in education from Long Island University in 1974. For several years, she taught art in a private preschool.

Her first book, Strangled Prose, was published in 1986. She was the author of the Claire Malloy Mystery series and the Arly Hanks Mystery series. A Diet to Die For won the American Mystery Award for best traditional novel of 1989. A short story, Too Much to Bare, received the Agatha Award in 1990 and the McCavity Award in 1991. She also wrote the Theo Bloomer series under the pseudonym Joan Hadley. She finished the final Amelia Peabody novel, The Painted Queen, using the notes of Elizabeth Peters and their conversations to finish the book. It was published in 2017. She died on November 23, 2017 at the age of 68.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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