Kissing The Beehive

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Kissing The Beehive
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Author Jonathan Carroll
LanguageEnglish
Genre Crime fiction
Publisher Bantam Books, Doubleday
Publication date
29 December 1997
Publication place USA
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages251
ISBN 9781453264966
OCLC 861846861
Followed byThe Marriage of Sticks 

Kissing The Beehive is a 1997 crime novel written by the American author Jonathan Carroll. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Plot summary

Kissing The Beehive is about Sam Bayer who is an author. Due to lack of inspiration for a novel which he had already collected an advance, he visits Cranes View in New York for inspiration. On getting there, he gets involved in an unsolved mystery of a female teenager in the town. He joins his friend Frannie McCabe who is police chief of Cranes View.

Awards and reception

Kissing the Beehive was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 1999. [6]

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