Busy Bodies (A Claire Malloy Mystery #10)

By: Joan Hess

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Synopsis: [From the back cover:] "Leave it to Claire Malloy, devoted amateur sleuth and owner of the Book Depot in Farberville, to start out having tea and end up investigating a murder. When Zeno Gorgias, an avant-garde artist, moves into town, the whole neighborhood is up in arms. His "interactive art," complete with a nearly nude model and a coffin in the front yard, is attracting a mob of noisy gawkers. But Zeno's local reputation suffers a much worse blow when his estranged wife storms into town to have him committed to a mental hospital. And before the night is out, even stranger things happen: the volatile artist's house goes up in smoke, a dead body is found inside the coffin, and the artist is promptly arrested for murder. Now, Claire starts snooping where she doesn't belong to become the busybody who finds the real killer." Look for more books in this humorous, well plotted series about a widowed bookstore owner who solves more crimes than her policeman boyfriend would like.#1 Strangled Prose, #2. the murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn, #3. Dear Miss Demeanor, #4. A Really Cute Corpse, #5. A Diet to Die For, #6. Roll Over and Play Dead, #7. Death by the Light of the Moon, #8. Poisoned Pins, #9. Ticked to Death, #11. A Holly Jolly Murder and #12. A Conventional Corpse, with more to come.