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April 3, 2007
Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls--whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys'--to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes…but at what cost?

Turns out there's a high price to pay to look one's best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run "accident" that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly--and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface….

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Claire Molloy's daughter befriends a less than desirable crowd of sorority sisters.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Adventure #8 for Farberville's bookstore owner Claire Malloy (Death by the Light of the Moon, etc.), widowed mother of teenager- from-hell Caron and sometime lover of police lieutenant Peter Rosen. Claire lives next door to this college town's Kappa Theta Eta sorority house, only sparsely occupied in the summer. Here, Claire--nosier than ever--gets involved in a series of incidents there--from screams in the night to prowlers and unexplained lights, culminating in the death of much admired senior Jean Hall, apparently run down by vanished Debbie Anne Wray, a wimpy pledge. Claire's persistence, not to say chutzpah, gradually uncovers connections to Law School Dean John Vanderson, his sleekly efficient wife Eleanor, the local hot-sheets motel, and a range of house activities undreamed of by the sorority's rules committee. Claire grows less appealing and amusing as her foibles are archly exaggerated; the plotting is also sometimes murky and unconvincing. Amiable but often dull fare. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Minotaur Books (April 3, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312349173
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312349172
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #776,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Joan Hess is a delight to read and this is one of her best., December 18, 1997
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Joan Hess is loads of fun to read and this is one of my favorites. Her characters are delightful and the heroine is someond you can really identify with. Highly recommended
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5.0 out of 5 stars joan hess, May 30, 2010
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I have all her books and will continue to buy them. Love the heroine.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Cozy Mystery, June 12, 2006
This was an enjoyable cozy mystery. The story flowed, the characterizations were good, the mystery solvable. There was even some humor thrown in, along with teenage angst and naughty happenings at the sorority next door.

Claire's money problems were realistic so that I felt like I wanted to shop in her store and help her out. However, it was frustrating to read about the way she let her daughter do whatever she wanted and talk to her disrepectfully. I also couldn't believe that Claire was so nosy. But then I later realized that Claire and her daughter are very much alike.

Though not my favorite cozy mystery series, this one is enjoyable. I'll read the whole series eventually.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ritual closet, campus security force, secret whistle, chapter room, pledge class, paper cats, corps president, sorority house
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Debbie Anne, Kappa Theta Eta, Dean Vanderson, Jean Hall, Book Depot, Eleanor Vanderson, Hideaway Haven, John Vanderson, Peter Rosen, Officer Terrance, Thurber Street, Officer Pipkin, Dew Drop Inn, Airport Arms, Arnie Riggles, Judge Frankley, Claire Malloy, Rhonda Maguire, Caron Malloy, Las Vegas, Miss Thackery, Fiona Thackery, Katie the Kappa Kitten Says Thanks, Lieutenant Pipkin, Pester the Jester
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