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Winter's Child

by Margaret Maron

Its one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryantuntil a disturbing call from Dwights 8-year-old son Cal calls him back to Virginia. When he arrives, he is shocked to find that his ex-wife has left the boy alone for almost 24 hours. Worse, as Dwight tries to confront her, she takes the child and leaves town without a word. As Dwight embarks on... (more)

Bootlegger's Daughter

by Margret Maron, Margaret Maron

While campaigning for district judge of Colleton County, North Carolina attorney Deborah Knott tries to solve a senseless, eighteen-year-old murder and stumbles upon decades-old secrets. Reprint. K. NYT.

Shooting at Loons (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

Shooting at Loons (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

by Margaret Maron

Visiting North Carolina's lush Crystal Coast, Judge Deborah Knott becomes aware of stirring hostility between local fisherfolk and developers and discovers the murdered body of a man who had served as a peacemaker between the two groups. Reprint. NYT. PW.

Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

by Margaret Maron

You can almost smell the cotton candy and hear the barkers inviting you to try your skill at a game of chance in this lively new mystery starring Colleton County, North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott. Knott's stunned to discover that Brazos Hartley, murdered on the midway at the Harvest Festival carnival, was a member of her family; his mother, Tally Ames, is Deborah's first cousin, born of a shotgun marriage and... (more)

Death's Half Acre

by Margaret Maron

Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to... (more)

Last Lessons of Summer

by Margaret Maron

Heir to her family's successful children's book and merchandising business, Amy Stedman arrives in NorthCarolina with the task of clearing out the house of her deceased grandmother-whose murder remains unsolved. While sorting through her grandmother's things, Amy begins to reflect on her own marriage to a man who seems more in love with her legacy than with her. Similarly, Amy's mother's mar-riage to her... (more)

Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

The fourth entry in the critically acclaimed series by the Edgar Award-winning author follows North Carolina's Judge Deborah Knott on a Thanksgiving Day investigation into the murder of a man from her father's moonshine-making past.

Southern Discomfort (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

Southern Discomfort (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

While participating in the WomenAid project, a program that builds houses for battered and homeless women, Colleton County district judge Deborah Knott finds herself in the middle of a mystery when her niece is assaulted. 12,500 first printing.

Storm Track

by Margaret Maron

When it comes to the weaving of tangled webs, you'll find none finer nor more deceptive than those on the loom of Margaret Maron's Storm Track, the seventh entry in her critically acclaimed Judge Deborah Knott mystery series.Colleton County, North Carolina, is home to Judge Knott, her moonshining daddy (the series opener, 1992's Bootlegger's Daughter, swept the Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity awards... (more)

Killer Market (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

Killer Market (Deborah Knott Mysteries (Paperback))

by Margaret Maron

When Judge Deborah Knott fills in for a judge in High Point, North Carolina, she has no idea that a show featuring the largest assortment of upscale home decorations in the world will be taking over the town while she is there. And when the son-in-law of an old classmate turns up dead on a pink satin love seat--Deborah must find an assassin who puts his work on display.

High Country Fall

by Margaret Maron

Judge Deborah Knott has agreed to marry her childhood friend, Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, but it's hardly the love match of the century. Indeed she now questions whether friendship, mutual history and good sex are really enough to make a strong marriage. Her antidote to cold feet: head for the hills. When asked to fill in for a vacationing judge in Cedar Gap Deborah readily agrees. It seems the perfect place to... (more)

Rituals of the Season (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

Rituals of the Season (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

The multiple winner of the most coveted prizes for mystery fiction, Margaret Maron is back with a new tale featuring her perennially popular sleuth Judge Deborah Knott. Only days away from her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott has more than enough worries to keep her busy. With her sisters-in-law dissecting every detail of the ceremony, her brothers making book on whether her very... (more)

Bloody Kin

by Margaret Maron

After Jake Honeycutt dies in a hunting accident, his pregnant wife Kate moves to his family farm in North Carolina and soon discovers that she is a Yankee outsider and that Jake's death was no accident. Reprint.

Home Fires

by Margaret Maron

At a stop along her campaign trail, Judge Deborah Knott attends a community picnic at the Mt. Olive Church. When the historic building is destroyed by a fire shortly after the outing; and the charred skeleton of a young man is found among the ashes; Knott begins her own investigation into the tragedy. Earlier national news reports of a fire at a local African-American church had already gained the attention of... (more)

Uncommon Clay

by Margaret Maron

In the red clay country of Seagrove, North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott oversees the distribution of property in the bitter divorce between two members of the Nordan clan, a dynasty of skilled potters long cursed by suicide and scandal. After a gruesome act of violence suddenly strikes the homestead, Judge Knott must stop a killer who will stop at nothing to continue a dark history of family secrets, old sins,... (more)

Fugitive Colors (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

Fugitive Colors (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

Grieving over the deaths of a fellow officer and her artist lover, NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald is swept into New York's fashionable art world, where she discovers an undercurrent of treachery. Reprint. AB.

Hard Row

by Cornell Woolrich

As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina, but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well. Mutilated body parts have... (more)

Sand Sharks

by Margaret Maron

When Judge Deborah Knott travels to Wrightsville Beach for a summer conference for North Carolina District Court Judges, she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. Meanwhile, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, is in Virginia with his son, tying up loose ends left by the death of his first wife. When another judge is found murdered at the conference, it soon becomes evident that... (more)

One Coffee With (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

One Coffee With (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

Investigating the poisoning murder of Professor Ripley Quinn, NYPD detective Sigrid Harald considers the motives of eight possible suspects in the art department office, including a man who had been sleeping with Quinn's wife. Reprint.

The Right Jack (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

The Right Jack (Sigrid Harald Mysteries)

by Margaret Maron

NYPD Homicide Detective Sigrid Harald's partner, Detective Tildon, should have been safe at his cribbage tournament in a posh Manhattan hotel but a bomb blast leaves him in intensive care. Sigrid is sent to investigate who the real target was.

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