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      The Maggody Militia

      by Joan Hess
      Published
      Apr 1997
      Main Genre
      Law Enforcement Law Enforcement
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      224
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      An Arly Hanks Mystery Book 10

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      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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      Law Enforcement Police Procedural

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      Small Town

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      First Edition Apr 1997 Onyx ISBN13 9780451407269 ISBN10 0451407261
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      May 1997 Dutton ISBN13 9780525942368 ISBN10 052594236X
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      Jun 2016 Mysterious Press ISBN13 9781504037266 ISBN10 150403726X
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      Jun 2016 MysteriousPress.com/Open Road ISBN10 B01ENRHK4E
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      May 2022 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books ISBN10 B09YFL8L4Y
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      Jul 1997 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786211081 ISBN10 0786211083
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