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The Claire Malloy series is set in Farberville, Arkansas, and centers around Claire Malloy, who owns a small bookstore across from the campus of Farberville College. It has been suggested that Farberville is a stand-in for Fayetteville, Arkansas, with many landmarks, including the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, Dickson Street, and even well-known local citizens, thinly veiled in the prose.

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Awards

Hess has been nominated for the Agatha Award five times and won once, for her 1990 short story "Too Much to Bare".^[6]

Personal life

A longtime resident of Fayetteville, Arkansas, Hess lived in Austin, Texas where she died at her home Nov. 23, 2017.^[7]^[8]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Great Cat Mysteries: An Anthology of Feline Capers (audio edition by Phoenix Books, 1996).

Notes

1. ^{{cite web|website=Goodreads|title=Joan Hadley|accessdate=August 10, 2016|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2944726.Joan_Hess}}
2. ^{{cite web|website=Goodreads|title=Joan Hadley|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/75457.Joan_Hadley|accessdate=August 10, 2016}}
3. ^{{cite news |title=Q&A: Your questions |date=11 September 1994 |work=Dallas Morning News}}
4. ^{{cite book|date= November 28, 1986 |publisher= St. Martin's Press |author=Hadley, Joan|title=The Night-Blooming Cereus|isbn=9780312572808|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2644896-the-night-blooming-cereus?from_search=true}}
5. ^{{cite book|date= March 1, 1988 |publisher= St. Martin's Press |author=Hadley, Joan|title=The Deadly Ackee|isbn=9780312014162|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2644898-the-deadly-ackee}}
6. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards_past.html |title = Agatha Awards Past Winners |publisher = Malice Domestic |accessdate = 2 May 2012 |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20100412020049/http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards_past.html |archivedate = 12 April 2010 |df = }}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/joanhess|title=Joan Hess|publisher=Macmillan}}
8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?n=joan-hess&pid=187377201|title=Joan HESS's Obituary on Austin American-Statesman|website=Austin American-Statesman|access-date=2017-11-29}}
9. ^Numbers are those assigned by MacMillan publishers in their latest release of these books and do not necessarily reflect the order of first publication.
10. ^The Maggody books are listed in reading order.
11. ^The Theo Bloomer books are listed in reading order.
12. ^{{cite book|date= November 28, 1986 |publisher= St. Martin's Press |author=Hadley, Joan|title=The Night-Blooming Cereus|isbn=9780312572808|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2644896-the-night-blooming-cereus?from_search=true}}
13. ^{{cite book|date= March 1, 1988 |publisher= St. Martin's Press |author=Hadley, Joan|title=The Deadly Ackee|isbn=9780312014162|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2644898-the-deadly-ackee}}
14. ^{{cite book|date= May 1987 |publisher= Silhouette books |author=Hess, Joan|title=Future Tense|isbn=0373062338|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1814397.Future_Tense?from_search=true}}