Death by the Light of the Moon

By Joan Hess

Subjects: Farberville (ark. : imaginary place), fiction, Louisiana, fiction, Women detectives, Malloy, claire (fictitious character), fiction, Women detectives in fiction, Arkansas, fiction, Fiction, Claire Malloy (Fictitious character), Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Booksellers and bookselling in fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Open Library Staff Picks, Louisiana in fiction, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Booksellers and bookselling

Description: Things that go bump in the Bayou... For bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy getting a root canal beats going to a Malloy family reunion. But it is time her fifteen-year-old daughter Caron visits her deceased father's relatives. Now Claire and Caron have arrived at Malloy Manor, a run-down mansion in Louisiana's bayou country...where the mosquitoes are big enough to barbecue, the swamp is crawling with alligators, the butler looks like he stepped out of a teen slasher movie, and the wheelchair-bound matriarch, Miss Justicia, races around the grounds cackling like a loon. It's the perfect setting-for a murder. Before a night has passed, Miss Justicia is sleeping with the fishes. The police call it a "tragic accident." Caron is all for calling a cab. But Claire wants to have a closer look at her "loving" relatives since she has a hunch leaving Malloy Manor isn't going to be all that easy...and neither is staying alive.