• Much Ado in Maggody

  • Arly Hanks Series, Book 3
  • By: Joan Hess
  • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
  • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (41 ratings)

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Much Ado in Maggody

By: Joan Hess
Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
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A hilarious police procedural set in the strangest town in the Ozarks, where whip-smart sheriff Arly Hanks does everything she can to keep the peace.

Nothing ever happens in Maggody, Arkansas, population 755. Aside from handling the occasional barroom brawl or exploding still, Chief of Police Arly Hanks spends her days sipping coffee and squashing flies. She returned to Maggody two years ago, licking her wounds after a bad Manhattan divorce, and she fell backward into the role of sheriff. From Hizzoner the Moron - also known as Jim Bob Buchanon, the pettily corrupt mayor - to Ruby Bee Hanks - Arly's mother and the town's foremost gossip - the people of Maggody are all crazy in their own ways, and that craziness is about to turn deadly.

When Joanna Mae Nookim returns to work after giving birth, the bank manager bumps her down to minimum wage as punishment for taking time off. It's outrageous, but there's nothing Arly can do. But when the bank burns to the ground and the head teller is found dead, Maggody threatens to burst into an all-out revolution for the sake of women's rights.

©1989 Joan Hess (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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much Ado in Maggody

This is an amazing book. It has enough funny stuff in it to make it good. Not to much just the right amount. Arly is trying to find who burnt the bank and killed someone. The people in the town makes the book great. Courtney Patterson does an excellent job narrating this book. If my review is any help will you please click on the helpful link below. Thank you

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Funny

It is an unbelievable story of small town life. The characters are amazingly eccentric. I loved every minute of it.

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foul language, over use of poor stereotypes.

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Just OK

This episode in the Maggody series is good, but not as entertaining as the first two books. The narrator does an excellent job, as always.

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