Deborah Knott mysteries
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Series Volume:
2.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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With sass and wit, Deborah Knott, formerly a defense attorney in North Carolina's Collection County, is putting herself firmly on the seat of power-a district judgeship. She's also making good on a campaign promise; helping to build houses for battered women. Here Deborah expects muscleaches, not the near-rape of a young woman and the murder of her attacker. and Deborah crtainly never expects that her hammer complete with her fingerprints will become...
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Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott's handbag is stolen with her penicillin tablets inside. When the bag is found by the side of a man who died from those tablets, the judge turns sleuth. The victim, a salesman attending a big furniture show, was a boyfriend in her youth.
7. Storm track
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Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Spunky, lovable female magistrate Deborah Knott shares another down-home tale of murder and mayhem in her beloved Colleton County. This time around, a small town seductress found in the Orchid Motel wearing nothing but her black lace skivvies, and Deborah must search for the killer. The investigation is blown off course, however, when Hurricane Fran attacks the North Carolina coast. Will a raging storm save a killer? Not if Judge Deborah has anything...
9. Slow dollar
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Series Volume:
9.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When an inflatable carnival ride is destroyed, the first in a series of strange events surrounding a traveling carnival, judge Deborah Knott wonders about a carny's charm bracelet and her connection to Deborah's own family.
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Series Volume:
11.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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- "High Country Fall, Margaret Maron's most recent installment in the Deborah Knott series, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 8/04, with a first printing of 40,000 copies.- Margaret Maron swept the top mystery awards with her first Deborah Knott hardcover, "Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press, 1992), receiving the Edgar1 Award for Best Mystery Novel, the Agatha Award, the Macavity, and the Anthony. She also won a 1992 Agatha Award...
12. Winter's child
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Series Volume:
12.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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One month after her marriage to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, judge Deborah Knott finds their union tested when Bryant's ex-wife takes flight with their eight-year-old son, forcing Bryant to launch a search for the boy before he comes to harm.
13. Hard row
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Series Volume:
13.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"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 North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it become clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are summering just below the surface in Colleton...
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14.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott"--Provided by publisher.
Conflicts between family farmers and real estate developers in Colleton County lead to the murder of a controversial commissioner and pulls Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, into the fray.
15. Sand sharks
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Series Volume:
15.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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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 Deborah may be the...
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 Deborah may be the...
17. Three-day town
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Series Volume:
17.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing and the doorman has been murdered.
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Series Volume:
18.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new Deborah Knott mystery where Deborah, Dwight, and Sigrid once again work together to catch a killer, uncovering long-buried family secrets along the way.
Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well....
Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well....
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Series Volume:
20.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute. The local newspaper implies that Deborah's family may have had something to do with the murder-and that Dwight is dragging...