16 The Arly Hanks Mysteries books in order

After a crossbow killing at a cheap roadside motel, Ozarks police chief Arly Hanks finds herself investigating her first murder case.

Her marriage over and career gone bust, Arly Hanks flees Manhattan for her hometown: Maggody, Arkansas. In a town this size, nothing much ever happens, so Arly figures she's… show more.

When a woman is shot in a cannabis patch, Arly Hanks must restore order to her Ozarks community, in this sharp-witted mystery by an Agatha Award-winning author.

When small-town police chief Arly Hanks returns to Maggody, Arkansas, after vacation, she finds the population has risen to a booming 802. Among… show more.

When Johanna Mae Nookim is denied the request to file sex discrimination charges, soon half the women in Maggody band together. Brother Verber thinks they are practicing witchcraft, but everybody learns the truth when the women stage a demonstration. Next, the bank turns to flames, and the head teller is… show more.

Pandemonium reigns in tiny Maggody when citizens revolt against a new supermarket, that threatens their businesses, by tampering with the food, causing one death and leaving Chief of Police Arly Hanks with a prime suspect--his mother

Maggody Police Chief Arly Hanks is up to her neck in steamy sex and murder when a film crew begins shooting what looks like a pornographic movie in the tiny hamlet

Arly Hanks is summoned to Manhattan from her comfortable post as Chief of Police in Maggody, Arkansas, to rescue two hometown housewives in the city for the finals of the Krazy KoKo bake-off. National ad/promo. Tour.

When country music superstar Matt Montana returns to his small, depressed Arkansas hometown for a holiday benefit concert, a record company executive soon turns up murdered, prompting Sheriff Arly Hanks to investigate. 20,000 first printing.

When crop circles begin appearing in her little town, Police Chief Arly Hanks finds herself more than occupied with tabloid reporters, officers for UFORIA (Unidentified Flying Objects Reported in Arkansas), cattle mutilations, and the murder of a young ufo-ologist. 20,000 first printing. Tour.

In a ninth mystery, Maggody Police Chief Arly Hanks must get to the bottom of a brutal double homicide involving a handsome young evangelist and the high school girls' basketball coach.

The residents of Maggody, Arkansas, initially welcome new pawnshop owner Kayla Smeltner, but when it appears that she is training a militia group and that she may be tied to a murder, female sleuth Arly Hanks must get to the bottom of it.

The popular mystery series set in the backwater Arkansas town of Maggody continues as Mayor Arly Hanks ends up in the clink in connection with the death of a showgirl in a Mississippi town of riverboat gambling and glitz. 50,000 first printing.

When a beautiful, beguiling newcomer to Maggody turns up murdered, police chief Arly Hanks traces her e-mails and begins to suspect that someone in town may have killed her--perhaps one of the many women she made jealous.

Book by Hess, Joan

Anticipating the filming of a Civil War documentary, Maggody citizens become excited over rumors that Confederate gold may be hidden in a local cave, prompting a flood of outside visitors, including an apparently murderous ghost. 35,000 first printing.

When a new owner of the local retirement home transforms it into an exclusive rehabilitation facility, the small town of Maggody is torn by rumors about displaced mental patients, a situation that culminates in the murder of a young receptionist and forces police chief Arly Hanks to disseminate truth from… show more.

Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), is regarded by most as a two-bit town. Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanon seeks to change that perception with a charity golf tournament! This presents a bit of a challenge, since no one in Maggody plays golf and there is no course. But when the prize for… show more.