Arly Hanks mysteries

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This is the fourth title in Joan Hess's OZARKS Mysteries' series. Usually called the MAGGODY series. An unwanted Super Supermarket has come to Maggody. At the grand opening, many get sick. Then someone dies from a product carried on their shelves. Is the mother of the Chief of Police a suspect?? Chief Arly has to find out. And does. Another witty murder adventure from Joan Hess.

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In Arkansas, the appearance of crop circles in a cornfield puts Maggody, pop. 775, on the map. The novel follows police chief Arly Hanks as he copes with hysteria, the media, sightings of aliens and the murder of a ufologist.

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When a beautiful, beguiling newcomer to Maggody turns up murdered, police chief Arly Hanks traces her e-mails and begins to suspect that someone in town may have killed her--perhaps one of the many women she made jealous.

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Under the benign watch of Police Chief Arly Hanks, things are pretty quiet in the sleepy Arkansas town of Maggody these days. Not even the prospect of a historical society-funded Civil War documentary on the locally touted (albeit historically insignificant) Skirmish at Cotter's Ridge of 1863 does much to stir up the denizens of this sleepy backwoods town. What does finally get the rumor mill buzzing, however, is the revelation that two saddlebags...

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Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is regarded by most as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon seeks to change that with her latest scheme—a charity golf tournament! This presents a bit of a challenge, since no one in Maggody plays golf and there is no course. But when the prize for the first hole-in-one is announced—a top of the line bass boat—nearly everyone in town quickly develops a profound

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