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A Holly, Jolly Murder by Joan Hess

A Holly, Jolly Murder by Joan Hess

      
MISTLETOE, MAGIC, AND MURDER

Murder never takes a holiday, as Arkansas bookseller-sleuth Claire Malloy discovers when she celebrates with a Druid ritual, a run-in with a witch, and a far from ho-hum case of homicide.

When Malthea Hendlerson, the self-proclaimed Arch Druid of the Sacred Grove of Keltria, wanders into the Book Depot, Claire assumes the elderly woman is a harmless eccentric. Then Malthea invites her to attend a winter solstice celebration at the Sacred Grove. Claire is looking forward to a traditional bonfire in a fir grove. What she gets is murder.

The neo-Druids' wealthy benefactor has been found dead of a gunshot wound, and Claire soon discovers that several Druids are harboring dangerous secrets. Hoping to wrap up the case before Christmas, she then realizes she has made an unforgivable mistake: By underestimating the cunning of a callous killer, she may have set herself up as the next victim.

cover variations

0525942408
0451407288
0312349165

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recent publishing history

Paperback

Sep-1998

Onyx

ISBN: 0451407288

ISBN13: 9780451407283


Mass Market Paperback

Nov-2006

Minotaur Books

ISBN: 0312349165

ISBN13: 9780312349165

First Edition

Hardcover

Nov-1997

Dutton

ISBN: 0525942408

ISBN13: 9780525942405

eBook

Nov-2006

St. Martin's

ISBN: 1466806249

ISBN13: 9781466806245


eBook (Kindle)

Nov-2006

Minotaur Books

Hardcover

Nov-2003

Thomas T. Beeler

Large Print

ISBN: 1574905317

ISBN13: 9781574905311

 

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published

Nov-1997 (hardcover)

Sep-1998 (paperback)

author series

A Claire Malloy Mystery - 12

time period

Contemporary

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Amateur Sleuth