02207cam a2200361 i 4500 282954990 TxAuBib 20051201120000.0 050928s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001020208 9780743202299 hardcover $23.00 0743202295 hardcover $23.00 TxAuBib rda Hess, Joan. Maggody and the moonbeams : [an Arly Hanks mystery #13] / Joan Hess. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. 254 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Arly Hanks mystery ; 13 Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759, but she’s never tangled with anyone as devious as the local youth group. While chaperoning a trip to Camp Pearly Gates, Arly watches the kids as closely as she would any hardened criminal, but when teenagers have a mind to get into trouble, there’s nothing a police chief can do but limit the damage. She’s just about got the situation under control when one of the kids finds a body, and all hell breaks loose in classic Maggody manner. The murdered woman sports a shaved head and a white robe, marking her as a Moonbeam, a member of a particularly kooky local cult. And caught between the sect and the law, Arly may be forced to sacrifice what little sanity she has left. Nobody pokes fun at religion quite as effectively as Joan Hess. This is another laugh-out-loud entry in one of the funniest mystery series of all time. Maggody and the Moonbeams is the 13th book in the Arly Hanks Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. 20051201. Hanks, Arly (Fictitious character) Fiction. Maggody (Ark. : Imaginary place) Fiction. Police Arkansas Fiction. Police chiefs Fiction. Policewomen Fiction. Arkansas Fiction. Humorous fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Arly Hanks mystery ; 13.