

Murder as a Second Language
Author: Joan Hess
Narrator: Meredith Mitchell
Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/17/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
Author: Joan Hess
Narrator: Meredith Mitchell
Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/17/2013
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths
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.
In this 19th book in the 'Claire Malloy' series, the bookstore owner/amateur sleuth investigates the death of an ESL student. The book can be read as a standalone, but knowing the characters is advantageous. ***** Claire Molloy, who was single for many years, recently married Deputy Chief Peter Rosen......more
Too much stock-in-trade for my taste. I finished it but the protagonist was unappealing. She has a fine life and is not much engaged in it. If a real character owned a bookstore, had a teenage daughter and a loving second husband, I think she would spend less time feeling useless.......more
I have enjoyed all the Claire Malloy books I've read (which is most of them, except for 2 I couldn't get from the library), and it isn't even necessarily because of the murder or whatever mystery Claire is snooping around trying to solve. I seldom figure it out so it's usually a surprise at the end......more
Wasn't sure I was liking this one at first. Claire Malloy is feeling somewhat adrift and without purpose since her sweet new husband has moved her into the house of her dreams and hired a clerk to run her small bookstore. Her sense of boredom pervades the first third of the book until, surprise, a m......more