Mummy Dearest

Every good author periodically writes a clinker, and this is Ms. Hess's example. I have loved most of her Malloy and Maggody books. Not so here. I finished it, basically because I expected it would improve. Now, I am waiting for her next one to see if she returns to form.......more

A little slow-moving to start but overall an enjoyable read. It's also, sadly, the last book Joan Hess wrote in this series.......more

Maybe because I listened on audio, I found Mummy Dearest hard to follow with too many characters I didn't care about and multiple indistinct crimes which barely seemed related.......more

Ha Ha Ha -- I picked a bag full of discarded Joan Hess mysteries from the giveaway table recently at the Winona, Miss., library; today, I finished reading this one, "Mummy Dearest", a good example of the Hess witty writing style; set in Luxor, Egypt, as our heroine and her new husband, along with tw......more

#17 in the Claire Malloy mystery series. Claire finally marries Peter Rosen of the Farberville Police Department. Peter has been trained in international copspeak in order to go on special assignment in Egypt, so that is where he and Claire spend their honeymoon. Unfortunately, much of their honeymo......more