Well, I was so excited when I saw this on the shelf- a new Joan Hess! But for a variety of reasons, it took me ages and ages to get through it, and by the time I was done with it, I not only didn't care who the killer was, I didn't remember who was dead.
This is, I think, for 2 reasons. I've been kind of half-brained lately (Thanks, Lab 257), but also, I don't enjoy Joan Hess's Claire Malloy books as much as the Arly Hanks series, which I adore. I don't know why, but I can't put down an Arly Hanks book, but Claire and Caron Who Talks In Capitals and Inez the dowdy poker-shark and especially stupid Peter drive me nuts. I can't stand the way they talk, I would drown Caron if I met her, and I wish Peter would be captured by terrorists so he wouldn't be so damn smug.
I think I sound vaguely deranged- but I've read a LOT of her books, and I suffer through the Claire Malloys hoping for more of her others, and I guess I've grown to feel strongly about the characters.
I might as well get the other Hess books out of the way and listed out here, while I'm at it. I reread the ones I have a lot in the bath, but unfortunately for me, I've read them so many times even I remember 'who done it'.
Claire Malloy books
Damsels in Distress
Out on a Limb
A Conventional Corpse
A Holly, Jolly Murder
Closely Akin To Murder
Busy Bodies
Death by the Light of the Moon
A Diet To Die For
A Really Cute Corpse
A Murder At The Murder At The Mimosa Inn
Strangled Prose
Arly Hanks books
Maggody and the Moonbeams
Murder @ Maggody
Miserly Loves Maggody
The Maggody Militia
Maggody in Manhattan
Malice in Maggody
Mischeif in Maggody
Muletrain to Maggody
Madness in Maggody
Much Ado in Maggody
O Little Town of Maggody
Miracles in Maggody
Malpractice in Maggody
Mortal Remains in Maggody
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