Maggody and the Moonbeams Maggody and the Moonbeams
The Arly Hanks Mysteries

Maggody and the Moonbeams

    • 3.7 • 39 Ratings
    • $8.99
    • $8.99

Publisher Description

A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery.

Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she’s never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers have a mind to get into trouble, there’s nothing a police chief can do but limit the damage. She’s just about got the situation under control when one of the kids finds a body, and all hell breaks loose in classic Maggody manner.
 
The murdered woman sports a shaved head and a white robe, marking her as a Moonbeam, a member of a particularly kooky local cult. And caught between the sect and the law, Arly may be forced to sacrifice what little sanity she has left.
 
Nobody pokes fun at religion quite as effectively as Joan Hess. This is another laugh-out-loud entry in one of the funniest mystery series of all time.
 
Maggody and the Moonbeams is the 13th book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2016
June 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

kringie ,

I’ll read more of the series, but...

I got this book during a BookBub promo. So well into the series, without a ton of background to work with.

The characters are interesting, and the story moves along at a good pace. Arly is a female small-town police chief in a town where everybody knows everybody else’s business, but try to pretend they don’t. Of course, like any good cozy mystery, a dead body is discovered, and the search is on for a perpetrator.

I enjoyed it.

HOWEVER...
I kept getting mental whiplash when the setting would flash from one group of characters and location to a completely different one with nothing more than a hard return separating them. The first time it happened, I thought I’d accidentally skipped some pages. Or pages were missing. But no, it was a separate storyline, taking place elsewhere, with a thread of connection to the primary story.

It may have been an issue unique to ebooks, and something might be different in a hard copy book. I kept wishing there was a decorative device (small border design between these setting change paragraphs. Just providing warning, so other readers can be prepared, and be able to move ahead with the story.

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