Deborah Knott mysteries
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
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When former neighbor Dallas Stancil is murdered, Judge Deborah Knott rushes to offer condolences to the grieving widow, not realizing that Cherry Lou, Dallas's third wife, set up the killing in order to cash in on a developer's offer of big money for her husband's backwoods land.
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5
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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
6) Home fires
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott investigates the burning of four black churches. Suspects include one of her nephews and to clear his name she must find the real arsonists.
7) Storm track
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Violent storms often hit Colleton County, North Carolina, but when a local attorney's promiscuous wife is killed, the murder blows the lids off more homes than last year's hurricane. As the victim's numerous lovers--including a handsome cousin of Judge Deborah Knott--scurry for cover stories, the judge begins her own investigation. What she finds is a tangled web of extramarital affairs and secrets linking half the county ... while a massive hurricane...
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Judge Deborah's engagement to Deputy Sheriff Dwight has stirred a furor in her extended family, so she trades noise at home for the supposed quiet of court in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There, predictably, she becomes embroiled in a murder case with a wrongfully accused suspect.
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott's anxiety over her upcoming Christmas wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant is compounded by the murder of a colleague, her involvement in helping students research the innocence of a death-row prisoner, ongoing renovations to her house, and worries over how to connect with her soon-to-be stepson.
12) Winter's child
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One month after Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryant's wedding their bliss is disturbed by a frantic phone call from Dwight's eight-year-old son in Virginia. Flying back, Dwight arrives to find that the boy has been left alone by his ex-wife for 24 hours. After confronting her, she takes the child and leaves town. As Dwight begins his search, Deborah joins him. By working together, perhaps they can decipher Dwight's ex-wife's motives,...
13) Hard row
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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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Judge Deborah Knott becomes involved in the murder case of Colleton County commissioner Candace Bradshaw when she comes across the woman's flash drive, which may contain evidence, and instead of giving it to her deputy husband, decides to investigate on her own, fearing details about her father's criminal past may be exposed.
15) Sand sharks
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Judge Deborah Knott, attending a summer conference for the North Carolina district court judges at Wrightsville Beach, is just starting to relax from the stresses of work, a new marriage, and stepmotherhood when one of her less-admired colleagues is found murdered, and she cannot keep from investigating when it becomes obvious that the killer may have another target.
17) Three-day town
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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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Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are back home in Colleton County with all their family and courthouse regulars. But there are a few new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Anne's ailing mother, Mrs. Lattimore. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist who claims to...
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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...
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2015.
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First edition.
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"Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, returns to Colleton County with an exciting new Deborah Knott mystery, Long Upon the Land. 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...