The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn

By Joan Hess

Book Overview

When Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron attend the mock murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn, everything goes swimmingly until Harmon, the leader of the theatrical group staging the event,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312971788
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 4.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.9" x 0.5" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Deadly Game

Here's an intriguing tale in the "traditional/cozy" mystery genre. Claire Malloy drags her reluctant teenaged daughter, Caron, to a murder mystery weekend at the Mimosa Inn. Claire, bookstore owner and amateur detective, is determined to solve the mystery and win the prize: champagne. It's not that she wants to outwit the charming and disarmingly sexy local police detective, Pete Rosen. It's just that...well....The game progresses until, suddenly, the "victim" turns up dead. Really dead.This is an early Hess mystery -- the second, I think, and her devil-may-care style is just developing. MURDER AT THE MIMOSA INN is unpretentious and good entertainment, almost as much fun as actually attending a murder mystery weekend.Sunnye Tiedemann (aka Ruth F. Tiedemann)

A classic Joan Hess mystery!

Joan Hess, creator of the Maggody series, introduces a new slueth in this amusing romp. Claire Malloy is wonderful as the bored bookstore owner looking for some excitement in her life. Claire's daughter Caron is every mothers' teenaged nightmare. The book provides a great introduction to this series of amateur detective fiction at it's funniest.