Hess: 433 books

When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queen through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would...

Life is Change. Children become adults. Summer becomes Winter. The old pass from life to death. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. But to some, life is purgatory. A place of temporary suffering between this world and the next. In these eleven stories, every painful, frightening transition is driven by a single element. That element is Purgatorium.

Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police Chief Peter...

A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart racing. But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulant teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (or face the horror...

At first it seems like a prank. How could Veronica Landonwood be the voice on the other end of the phone when she died three decades ago? But as Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy is about to find out, her cousin "Ronnie" is very much alive—and in trouble. And could use...

UNWANTED First thing he remembered was it being dark and cold. He didnt know where he was and he didnt know how old. He didnt have an address or a place that he called home. From as long as he remembered all he did was roam. He was bullied and shoved around almost every day when all he really wanted...

Murder is going to the dogs. . . Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire. Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they are. Everything is just...

Being a paranormal investigator I have been able to go look for things that go bump in the night. Then I started to think, what if the bump tried bumping you. And Ghost Hunted was made. I took people I knew to develop the characters in the book. A lot of people think I would fashion the main character...

Witty, dark and explosively carnal, Diary of a Sex Addict chronicles a gay New Yorker’s month-long descent into a circus of anonymous hook-ups as he struggles to erase the pain of a failed romance and blot out the routine of a soul-numbing day job. Bizarre gang-bangs and fleeting attempts at celibacy...

Have you ever found yourself taking a journey into unfamiliar territory, and saying it's just another adventure? Was there a dream that was horrific enough to make you beg to wake from, or did you want to see more? Step into the Chamber of Souls; there's always room for one more.

Police chief Arly Hanks investigates murder in her Ozark hometown in three books of a beloved series by an Agatha Award–winning author. Her marriage and career over, Arly Hanks heads home to Maggody, Arkansas, for a fresh start. Not much ever happens in a village this size, so Arly figures...

New York Times bestseller! Blade never asked for a life of the rich and famous. In fact, he’d give anything not to be the son of Rutherford Morrison, a washed-up rock star and drug addict with delusions of a comeback. Or to no longer be part of a family known most for lost potential, failure,...

After a horrific investigation, Mike Taylor wanted to give up everything in the paranormal world. He lost his friends and his love. Kevin, the last member of VGH, brings Mike back to investigate a swamp. Jonathan Johnson, a lawyer, hires the two of them to help Mrs. Davis to save her land from the...

Mole claws scrape out a new home. A duck uses her webbed feet to flip underwater and search for a snack. Orangutan feet grab on tight as they swing from vine to vine. Who knew that feet could be so special and perform such extraordinary feats!