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Poisoned Pins (1993)

by Joan Hess

Series: Claire Malloy (8)

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Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls--whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys'--to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes...but at what cost? Turns out there's a high price to pay to look one's best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run "accident" that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly--and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface....… (more)
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murder of misfit in sorority house to cover embezzlement
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I thought this was really bad. It is supposed to be funny. But maybe it is the ugliness of the content that made me feel it wasn't light-hearted but just mean.
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Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls--whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys'--to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes...but at what cost? Turns out there's a high price to pay to look one's best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run "accident" that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly--and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface....

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When a sorority sister is killed, Claire refuses to believe it was a simple hit-and-run accident and decides to investigate herself.
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Claire Malloy, bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, isn't quite sure she's ready to handle her big 4-0 birthday or her teenage daughter Caron. the Kappa Theta Eta sorority, which happens to be housed right next door to the Malloys, has just recruited Caron to be a My Beautiful Sel, Inc. consultant.
But beauty  makeovers may not be all the sorority girls are specializing in. To add to the horror of Claire's graying hair, one of the Kappa Theta Eta sisters  is killed in the dark alley next to the sorority. The cops rule to accidental hit-and-run, but Clair isn't so sure and decides to investigate herself. AS she digs deeper into the case, Claire discovers that he sisters' activities are not as sweet and innocent as the sorority's pink colors might suggest. 
For Claire Malloy, it's going to be a heck of a way to spend the lazy, hazy days of the crazies Farerville summer she's known yet - that is, if she makes it alive.
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