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The Maggody Militia by Joan Hess

The Maggody Militia by Joan Hess

      
MURDER PAINTS MAGGODY

Chief of Police Arly Hanks is the law in Maggody, Arkansas (pop.755), a peaceful little Ozarks town snuggled in the heartland of America. Until a group of camouflage-clad patriots march in with maneuvers--and murder.

It begins when pretty widow Kayleen Smeltner lets a group of demented militants use her back pasture for paint-ball war games during the first weekend of hunting season. Suddenly, burglars are breaking into houses; Mayor Jim Bob is a missing person; and now a survivalist has been killed. Which leaves Arly hunting for a motive, a means, and a murderer. Wisely, she reckons there isn't a secret government conspiracy behind this homicide -- just the usual human evils of blind ambition, big money, and deadly obsessions.

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0451407261
052594236X

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recent publishing history

First Edition

Paperback

Apr-1997

Onyx

ISBN: 0451407261

ISBN13: 9780451407269

Hardcover

May-1997

Dutton

ISBN: 052594236X

ISBN13: 9780525942368

Hardcover

Jul-1997

Thorndike Press

Large Print

ISBN: 0786211083

ISBN13: 9780786211081

 

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published

Apr-1997

author series

An Arly Hanks Mystery - 10

time period

Contemporary

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Police / Detective / FBI / Law Enforcement