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    Madness in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery
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    Madness in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery
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    Madness in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery

    Written by Joan Hess

    Narrated by Kristin Kalbli

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    About this audiobook

    In a town as peculiar as Maggody, Arkansas, it doesn’t take much to tip the community into chaos. When Mayor Jim Bob Buchanon’s SuperSaver Buy 4 Less takes out a full-page ad boasting the new supermarket’s authentic tamales, gourmet deli counter, and various other bells and whistles, every restaurateur in town fears that Jim Bob is going to put him out of business.

    So when it comes time for the Buy 4 Less’s gala opening, one citizen decides to play dirty, slipping something into Jim Bob’s famous tamale sauce that leaves twenty-three unsuspecting attendees sick with food poisoning—and one dead.

    Madness in Maggody is the 4th book in the "Arly Hanks Mysteries", but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

    ©2016 Joan Hess (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781520035888
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    Madness in Maggody: An Arly Hanks Mystery
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    Joan Hess

    Joan Hess is the author of the critically acclaimed Maggody mysteries, including Muletrain to Maggody, Maggody and the Moonbeams, Misery Loves Maggody, and Murder@Maggody.com, nominated for the prestigious Nero Wolfe Award. She has received numerous awards, including the American Mystery Award, the Agatha Award, the Drood Review Readers' Award, and the Macavity Award. A former president of the American Crime Writers League, she is currently president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance, as well as a member of Sisters in Crime. Joan Hess lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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    • 3/5
      Book four in the series, I won't be purchasing more. Sadly, I see that I already have three more on my Kindle account, and one somewhere in the house, although I don't recollect where it is. LibraryThing tells me this.Set in the small town of Maggody, I assume somewhere in the southern states of America, this had potential for some heavy issues to be discussed in fictional form, such as large chain stores running out small enterprises in small towns, or child abuse, or the evil of gossip and judgement. The atmosphere was so preposterous though, that I couldn't take anything seriously.There wasn't a character in the town that was likable, except the narrator, which then makes me suspect the narrator of having a very mean, dim and judging outlook on those who are supposed to be near and dear to her. I suppose it is meant to be funny, but what it comes across to me as, is caricatures of small town folks, and not nice ones at that. I do not deny the foibles of small towns, but there is a lot of love, common sense and hard work which goes on in them as well, but apparently not in any of the lives of those in this book.
    • 4/5
      When the food offered by Mayor JimBob Buchanon's new grocery store at its grand opening is found to be tainted, Arly Hanks must figure out who (besides herself) would want to ruin him.
    • 5/5
      The. Last audiobook in the series.
      This author is so funny. Laughing though out, except the ending..
      I am very thankful I stumbled onto this author, who I feel is a very good story teller!