One of the 2012 Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books: Mysteries
Margaret Maron's mysteries starring Judge Deborah Knott have built a loyal following since debuting with the Edgar Award-winning The Bootlegger's Daughter. The series' 18th entry finds Deborah and
her husband, Deputy Sheriff Bryant, teaming up with Lt. Sigrid Herald to track down a killer on the loose in their small North Carolina town. But as the hunt for the culprit gets more intense, they
uncover long-hidden secrets that cast their investigation in a whole new light.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Smartly written.” —New York Times
“In Maron’s intriguing eighteenth Deborah
Knott mystery…Maron successfully combines a look at family foibles and
relationships with a series of moral choices that challenges the characters’
sense of law and justice.” —Publishers Weekly
“As always, Maron skillfully layers an absorbing
plot with the doings of Deborah’s large extended family and the domestic
details of their semirural lifestyle. In addition, the contrast between
Deborah, who is warm and caring, and Sigrid, who is reserved and cerebral,
gives Maron’s tale added depth.” —Booklist
“Maron…adroitly melds ugly American (open)
government secrets with classic whodunit intrigue and stirs the pot by
itemizing domestic travails that will touch readers’ hearts.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Margaret Maron is the author of more than twenty-five novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries, including the Edgar, Agatha,
Anthony, and Macavity, her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature. A native Tar Heel, she still lives on her family’s country farm a few miles from
Raleigh.
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