Maggody and the Moonbeams, Joan Hess
Maggody and the Moonbeams, Joan Hess
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Maggody and the Moonbeams

Author: Joan Hess

Narrator: CJ Critt

Unabridged: 8 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery.

Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she's never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers have a mind to get into trouble, there's nothing a police chief can do but limit the damage. She's just about got the situation under control when one of the kids finds a body, and all hell breaks loose in classic Maggody manner.

The murdered woman sports a shaved head and a white robe, marking her as a Moonbeam, a member of a particularly kooky local cult. And caught between the sect and the law, Arly may be forced to sacrifice what little sanity she has left.

Nobody pokes fun at religion quite as effectively as Joan Hess. This is another laugh-out-loud entry in one of the funniest mystery series of all time.

About Joan Hess

Joan Hess (1949-2017) was an award-winning author of several long-running mystery series. Born in Arkansas, she was teaching preschool when she began writing fiction. Known for her lighthearted, witty novels, she created the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks Mysteries, both set in Arkansas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on January 23, 2016

I enjoyed this read. It was a murder and kid knapping mystery. There were some pretty funny charicters throughout. I recommend this book if you like some light reading. Enjoy and be Blessed. Diamond......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on February 02, 2018

I got the impression the main character, female police chief of a small town, is not impressed by the men she comes in contact with either socially or otherwise. I did not like how the story jumped around from the main plot in first person to two other subplots in third. By the end of the book, the......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on September 05, 2021

Cozy mysteries are wonderful in that they are light, easy to read, not violent and pretty easy to solve on your own. Most are fairly good for an afternoon or two of reading and great breaks from dark and dramatic thrillers, heavy history or biographies or multiple book family tales. And some are very......more

Goodreads review by Donna on March 02, 2020

It will grab your attention There is a lot of slapstick comedy, a kind of unusual female police chief named Arly, and loads of other characters. I recommend you write their names down as they come on the scene in an attempt to keep track of all of them. There is a cult of women who shave their heads......more

Goodreads review by Melva on April 23, 2019

When Arly gets roped into chaperoning a group of teens on a mission trip to Camp Pearly Gates she has no idea what she is getting herself into. There is a handsome fisherman, a group of strange women and an inept police department. There are a lot of teenagers, an uptight church woman and a drunken......more