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Mystery.
Another outrageous Maggody mystery, starring police chief Arly Hanks alongside a smooth-talking televangelist and a whole town full of sinners. Some days, police chief Arly Hanks can't help but see Maggody, Arkansas, as little more than a cesspool of poverty, ignorance, and incest-the kind of glorified trailer park that gives the South a bad name. But hey, it's home. So when silver-tongued televangelist Malachi Hope swoops into town, with a revivalist laser light show and plans to build a Christian theme park, Arly worries her beloved, if crazy, neighbors are about to be swindled. But it's Malachi who should be terrified. As the town whips itself into revival fever, it's all Arly can do to keep Maggody from coming apart at the seams. And when the girls' basketball coach is found dead, Arly can't help but suspect that the murder is related to Malachi's tent meetings. To save Maggody from itself, Arly will risk everything-in this world and the hereafter. What Carl Hiaasen did for Florida, Joan Hess has done for the Ozarks. This is a hilarious look at small-town greed and the irresistible madness of Maggody, Arkansas.… (more) |
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To the 1992-3 AAAA State Basketball Champions Fayetteville High School Lady Bulldogs
Carrie Baker, Carrie Cawthon, Wendy Cook, Emily Corrigan, Heater Cullers, Cher Gabbard, Anita Hampton, Melissa Hayden, Becca Hess, Dawn Jenkins, Ashley Jones, Erin Kirkpatrick, Melissa Levesque, Jennifer Masters, Marika McKinen, Laura Neely, Sharon Neeley, Melinda Polk, Catherine Reynolds, Sharlie Reynolds, Melissa Simpson, Cherry Starling, Cari Tanneberger, Paige Thompson, Laura Todd, Cherie Tyree, and Lindsey Wagner.
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The so-called extraterrestrials who'd visited Maggody a few months ago had found no sign of intelligent life, and I doubted anyone else could, either. | |
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Mystery.
Another outrageous Maggody mystery, starring police chief Arly Hanks alongside a smooth-talking televangelist and a whole town full of sinners. Some days, police chief Arly Hanks can't help but see Maggody, Arkansas, as little more than a cesspool of poverty, ignorance, and incest-the kind of glorified trailer park that gives the South a bad name. But hey, it's home. So when silver-tongued televangelist Malachi Hope swoops into town, with a revivalist laser light show and plans to build a Christian theme park, Arly worries her beloved, if crazy, neighbors are about to be swindled. But it's Malachi who should be terrified. As the town whips itself into revival fever, it's all Arly can do to keep Maggody from coming apart at the seams. And when the girls' basketball coach is found dead, Arly can't help but suspect that the murder is related to Malachi's tent meetings. To save Maggody from itself, Arly will risk everything-in this world and the hereafter. What Carl Hiaasen did for Florida, Joan Hess has done for the Ozarks. This is a hilarious look at small-town greed and the irresistible madness of Maggody, Arkansas. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Chief of police Arly Hanks usually handles all the crime that comes her way in Maggody, Arkansas (pop 755), with the ease that Ruby Bee at Ruby Bee's Bar Grill gets out her blue plate specials. But that's before televangelist Malachi Hope rolls into town and sets up a tent revival that promises to put Maggody on the map ... and Arly on the hot seat.
In a show as electronically enhanced as a Rolling Stones concert, Malachi is soon performing nightly "miracles". Even more miraculous is his plan to buy 2000 acres of prime Maggody land to build a theme park.
Now greed is growing in the hearts of the town's leading citizens, and before Arly can say "amen," she's got two murders on her hands. Suspecting that one unholy secret connects both killings, she is about to poke her nose into the dark side of human nature - and unless she pulls off a few miracles of her own, Arly Hangs just might not get out of this crisis alive. | |
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