It was nice to meet up with Sigrid Harold again, and with the use of poetic license, the author has us catching up with her just three years after the death of her artist husband. She is still grieving and still on the prickly side. I'd forgotten, but she will also appear in the next of the Judge...
An easy reading Christmas cozy with a tangled mystery. District Judge Deborah Knott and chief sheriff's deputy Major Dwight Bryant are getting ready to celebrate their first Christmas together as man and wife. However, it promises not to be a quiet Christmas. In chapter 1, Mallory Johnson, the...
Found 3 more Deborah Knott mysteries at the library. This is one of them. Deborah is a judge in NC. She is also the youngest child (and only girl) of a local bootlegger (First book Bottlegger's Daughter) She has 11 older brothers. This particular story takes place approximately 5-7 months after ...
When Judge Deborah Knott is asked to substitute for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, North Carolina, she is looking forward to spending a restful week at her cousin's cottage on nearby Harkers Island - relative peace and quiet is Deborah's plan for the entire week. However, when he...
11th in the Judge Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina.[return][return]Not only reconciled but now eagerly anticipating her marriage to Dwight Bryant just before Christmas, Deborah is caught up not only in preparations for the wedding but for the season as well. But marring the festivities...
Hard Row: A Deborah Knott Mystery, by Maron, Margaret
In my worldview people read mysteries for two different reasons: they either focus on the puzzle elements or they enjoy the comedy of manners that the characters play out against the setting. I'm in the second category. I don't care much who killed whom or why, but I enjoy the interplay among the...
This was a very interesting mystery, mostly because I learned alot about carnivals, and the "carnies" themselves. Not as honest as I believed, but for them its business and making money. Judge Deborah Knott finds herself in the midst of carnival time, with family ties and murder, making #9 anothe...
BOTTOM LINE: One of the best Sigrid Harald stories, so far (#5 of 8), with a strong theater-based plot (one of my fave sorts of mysteries) and a nice wallop of emotional stuff mixed in as well. A classy-but-flashy child psychologist and her nephew are at a neighborhood dance troupe's Halloween pe...
6th in the Judge Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina.[return][return]The story opens with Deborah and her father, Kezzie Knott, racing to the scene of a burning church. Deborah risks her life to save a treasured Bible, hymn books and other objects from the church, as volunteer firemen bat...
When Jake Honeycutt died in a hunting accident, his wife, Kate, hoped that moving to his family farm in Colleton County, North Carolina would help heal her grief and provide a home for their unborn child. In this close-knit Southern community, Kate will discover that she is still very much a Yank...
This first novel in Maron's Imperfect series, which won the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 1993, introduces heroine Deborah Knott, an attorney and the daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger. Known for her knowledge of the region's past and popular with the locals, Deb is asked b...
The heroine of Bootlegger's Daughter returns. Deborah Knott, a newly-appointed District Judge, is making good on a campaign promise by helping to build houses for battered women. But instead of muscle aches, she gets murder--and her fingerprints are on the murder weapon.
10th in the Judge Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina.[return][return]There is simply too much hullabaloo over Deborah s upcoming marriage to Dwight, and she gratefully accepts a call to substitute for a judge in the western, piedmont part of the state; escape from all the attention looks ...
— Psalms 133:1 Dwight Bryant—Wednesday evening, August 20 At the Cotton Grove police station, Dwight discovered that the Mangums, David and Sunny, characterized by the police chief as old people who read the obituaries, were probably only in their late fifties. Old is a re...
A man’s faded cotton shirt was buttoned at neck and wrists, loose cotton slacks reached to the ground, gardening gloves protected her hands, and the floppy brim of a straw hat shaded her face from the sun. In times past, such a costume kept a lady’s skin from tanning; today it was to prevent skin...
—The Turkey Vulture Society February 14 has never been a big deal for me since the year Mason Faircloth gave Caroline Atherton a dollar valentine with a satin heart on it, while the one he stuck in my construction-paper mailbox came from a package of “25 for $2.50” with their one-size-fits-all se...
Shambley was shorter than his own five eleven by a good six inches and ugly as a mud fence with a dark, shaggy head that was two sizes too large for his small, stooped figure. As far as Benjamin Peake was concerned, expensive hairstyling and custom-tailored clothes were probably what kept childre...
Now we study money. —Middle Creek Poems, by Shelby Stephenson Next morning, I slept in while Dwight dropped Cal off for Sunday school at the church he and I grew up in. Cal’s not crazy about putting on Sunday clothes, but his Uncle Rob teaches the Junior Class and he’s made friends with some of t...