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"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son's...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1.
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Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 18.
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4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 18.
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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. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 16.
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4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 16.
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott and her husband Deputy Dwight Bryant are looking forward to Christmas until a traffic fatality turns out not to be an accident.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 14.
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4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 14.
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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.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 19.
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3.9 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 19.
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When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
7. Hard row
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 13.
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4.6 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 13.
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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.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10.
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4.7 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10.
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Taking an out-of-town assignment to put distance between herself and her hyper-reactive family, recently engaged judge Deborah Knott finds her peaceful break disrupted by a local murder that she becomes determined to solve.
9. Home fires
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6.
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4.8 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 6.
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One place the two Souths--black and white--meet is in Judge Deborah Knott's courtroom. From the pretty yet aggressive D.A. who requests harsh sentences for her fellow African-Americans to the three white teens caught desecrating a family graveyard with hate slogans, racial bias still tries the soul and tests the sense of justice in Colleton County, North Carolina. Busy with her reelection campaign and building a new house on land that has been in...
10. Killer market
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5.
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5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5.
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Sent to High Point, North Carolina, to substitute for a vacationing colleague, Deborah finds there is no room at the inn. Or anywhere else for that matter. The International Home Furnishings Market has taken over the town and all the hotels. All Deborah wants is a bed for the night, not thousands of living room suites and dining room ensembles. And the last thing she needs is murder. A chilling misadventure begins when she is befriended by Mrs. Jernigan,...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 20.
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4 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 20.
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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...
12. Sand sharks
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 15.
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4.8 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 15.
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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 killer's next target. Her...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 3.
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4.8 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 3.
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Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a restful week at her cousin's nearby Harkers Island cottage; but her very first clamming expedition turns up the corpse of a well-known fisherman in the shallow waters. Discovering the body puts her right in the middle of the fight between the locals who have long made their living from the sea and the new tide of well-to-do "dingbatters" weekenders and land...
14. Slow dollar
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 9.
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5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 9.
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Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton County to ride the Tilt-O-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of live goldfish against a cacophony of music, clacking machines, and hucksterism. The air is sweetly redolent of hot grease, fried dough, grilled meats, and spun sugar...and one whiff is all it takes to send...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 2.
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4.5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 2.
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Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomenAid, is at the reception, too. Not only has she come to collect the leftovers for her daycare...
16. Storm track
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 7.
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5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 7.
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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...
17. Uncommon clay
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8.
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5 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8.
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North Carolina's Randolph County is heavy with bright red clay and home to generations of skilled potters. Two of the best are James Lucas Nordan and Sandra Kay Hitchcock, locked in a bitter divorce after twenty-five years of marriage. Enter Judge Deborah Knott, who must settle the most exasperating part of any divorce case--the equitable distribution of marital property. As creative as it was stormy, the Nordans' marriage produced great artistic...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4.
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4.3 stars
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4.
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When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Deborah figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her Aunt Zell's best chicken casseroles. Mistake Number One. Dallas wasn't rich, but with development eating up the farms and forests of North Carolina, his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain-smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too...