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Title: A Diet to Die For by Joan Hess ISBN: 0-312-98137-6 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: FORGET THE AEROBICS AND PASS THE CHOCOLATE!
Comment: This fun mystery opens with Caron, Claire Malloy's teenaged terror, being selected Miss Thunder Thighs by the Farberville Highschool sophomore football team Naturally, she immediately decides that it is time for her and her best friend Inez to go on a crash diet. So, being Caron and Inez, the duo proceeds to run the gauntlet of every known bizarre fad diet know to man, woman and kook. And they all manage to end up with a pizza chaser.
While the dieting is running its course, Claire's downstairs neighbor volunteers her to become a weight loss mentor to Maribeth, the somewhat overweigh heiress of the Thurber-Farber fortune. This is all very well and good, except Claire just happens to be dedicated to salvation through chocolate and also to avoiding aerobic exercise at all costs.
Before long, Claire is in the middle of some very strange and highly humorous goings on including murder. Joan Hess is at her best spearing fitness centers, fad diets and instant weight loss elixirs. You know from the beginning how everything will turn out in the end, (with Claire solving the mystery despite her boy friend, Peter Rosen) but all the twists and turns and kooky characters are half the fun of a Hess mystery. Without a doubt she is one of the best writers of comic mystery fiction today!
Rating: 5
Summary: Another winning effort from Hess
Comment: Joan Hess once again takes us on a funny yet exciting adventure through the town of Farberville. A new weight loss center opens up in town and appears to be doing wonders for it's clients. Claire Malloy gets sucked in to provide rides and moral support to a friend of a friend who is a client. Naturally Claire's natural curiosity causes her to sense that there's a lot more going on at the weight loss center than is being advertised. Her digging into the facts leads to much excitement as well as danger to her own welfare. Suspenseful and witty all the way through with the usual characters such as melodratic daughter Caron and boyfriend/police detective Peter Rosen well rounding out the cast of characters.
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Title: The Murder at the Mimosa Inn by Joan Hess ISBN: 0312971788 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 15 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: A Really Cute Corpse by Joan Hess ISBN: 0312982917 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 17 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Strangled Prose by Joan Hess ISBN: 0312968647 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Dear Miss Demeanor : A Claire Malloy Mystery by Joan Hess ISBN: 0312973136 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Roll Over and Play Dead : A Claire Malloy Mystery by Joan Hess ISBN: 0312988281 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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