There are 20 books in the Claire Malloy Mysteries series. The newest book is Pride v. Prejudice which came out in 2015.

1
Strangled Prose

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Claire Malloy's friend has written a trashy novel. Claire agrees to host a book party but at the end of the evening her friend is found strangled. She had admittedly offended many people but who could have hated her with such passion?
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2
The Murder at Murder at the Mimosa Inn

The Murder at Murder at the Mimosa Inn
When you make a game of murder, be careful who the players are...Who could resist the mock-murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn-- certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, who decides to bring her petulant daughter Caron along for some detecting. As the guests settle in for…

3
Dear Miss Demeanor

Dear Miss Demeanor
First edition. A Claire Malloy mystery. "Claire Malloy, the redheaded bookseller with a penchant for solving murders, returns in the uncomfortable role of Farberville High School's newest substitute teacher, having been volunteered...by her teenage daughter...but when the authoritarian principal falls dead from a mouthful of cyanide-laced peach compote, and the…

4
A Really Cute Corpse

A Really Cute Corpse
When Claire Malloy's best friend Luanne Bradshaw goes down with a badly sprained ankle, someone must fill in her shoes as Thurberfest Beauty Pageant coordinator and usher a bevy of aspiring beauty queens through the two-day event. Enter Claire Malloy to the rescue. But this is one job Claire would…

5
A Diet to Die for

A Diet to Die for
Claire Malloy believes there is just one thing better than chocolate...and it's not jumping a round in an aerobics class. Nonetheless, she gets roped into accompanying a chubby heiress named Maribeth to Faberville, Arkansas's hottest new fitness center. Personally, Claire thinks the best way for Maribeth to lose 160 unnecessary…

6
Roll Over and Play Dead

Roll Over and Play Dead
When a friend's pets become the latest victims in a series of neighborhood disappearances, Claire Malloy investigates a suspicious animal dealer who soon meets a violent end

7
Death by the Light of the Moon

Death by the Light of the Moon
Invited to her late husband's ancestral home in the Louisiana bayous for a family reunion, Claire Malloy finds a gathering of ill-tempered relatives obsessed with the latest will of the family matriarch.

8
Poisoned Pins

Poisoned Pins
Claire Malloy balances her duties as single mother and bookstore owner against her part-time sleuthing when she investigates the murder of a local sorority girl. By the author of Maggody in Manhattan. 20,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

9
Tickled to Death

Tickled to Death
Claire Malloy's ninth mystery finds the resourceful owner of The Book Depot in smalltown Fayetteville trying to clear her friend Luanne's fiance+a7 from a murder charge involving the horrific deaths of his first two wives. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo. Tour.

10
Busy Bodies

Busy Bodies
The endearing bookseller-turned-sleuth returns in the story of Zeno Gorgias, an outrageous artist who lives next door to Claire's friend, Miss Parchester, and the neighborhood turmoil he creates with his artwork and as a murder suspect. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

11
Closely Akin to Murder

Closely Akin to Murder
At the request of long-lost cousin Ronnie, who as a teenager had been accused of the murder of a Hollywood producer in Acapulco some thirty years ago, Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron head to Mexico to find a blackmailer and unravel the truth about the decades-old killing.

12
A Holly, Jolly Murder

A Holly, Jolly Murder
Languishing from a fizzled love affair and keen for a lark during the holiday season, mild-mannered bookseller Claire Malloy visits a cabal of would-be Druids and Wiccans who find their wealthy benefactor murdered.

13
A Conventional Corpse

Book cover of A Conventional Corpse
Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is…

14
Out on a Limb

Book cover of Out on a Limb
New York:: St Martin's Minotaur, , (2002). Fine in near fine dust jacket (crease to rear flap of dj.). First printing. Fourteenth mystery featuring small town Arkansas bookseller Claire Malloy, 306 pp.

15
The Goodbye Body

The Goodbye Body
Claire Malloy runs a bookstore in the normally quiet college town of Farberville, Arkansas - an enterprise which provides the verging-on-meager living for her and her deeply sarcastic teenage daughter Caron. So when emergency work forces Claire and Caron to abandon their apartment for a few weeks, they are in…

16
Damsels in Distress

Damsels in Distress
A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart racing.  But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulant teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (or face the horror of doing homework over…

17
Mummy Dearest

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After a somewhat long and, at times, strange courtship, Claire Malloy -- a single, widowed mother of a teenage daughter and a bookseller in Farberville, Arkansas - has finally said 'I do' to her swain, Lt. Peter Rosen of the Farberville Police Department. Now they are on their honeymoon in…

18
Deader Homes and Gardens

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Now that she's back from her honeymoon, Claire Malloy must face the reality of her home life: It's too close for comfort. A two-bedroom apartment is a formula for disaster for her new husband, Police Chief Peter Rosen, and her teenage daughter, Caron. Time to go house hunting-before they all…

19
Murder as a Second Language

Book cover of Murder as a Second Language

Claire Malloy―now a married woman of leisure―tries her hand at volunteering, but instead lands her right in the middle of another murder investigation

Longtime bookseller and single mother, Claire Malloy has recently married her long term beau and moved out of her less than opulent apartment into a sprawling, newly…

20
Pride v. Prejudice

Book cover of Pride v. Prejudice

Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in ALL CAPS. But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police…