Miracles in Maggody by Joan Hess

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 Hanks just might not get out of this crisis alive....

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