Margaret Maron, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $19 (208p) ISBN 978-1-932009-11-8
Fans of Crippen & Landru's ""Lost Classics"" series will welcome Anthony Berkeley's The Avenging Chance and Other Mysteries from Roger Sheringham's Casebook, edited by Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson. Berkeley (1893-1971), the founder of London's
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Margaret Maron. Grand Central, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4555-6735-5
In 2016, MWA Grand Master Maron ended her popular Deborah Knott series with Long upon the Land, which resolved several outstanding questions about the characters. She also settles some unresolved issues in this, the excellent 10th and final entry in
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Margaret Maron. Grand Central, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4532-2
Bestseller Maron’s 20th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2014’s Designated Daughters) combines strong plotting, a superb cast of recurring characters, and a rare sense of place that transports readers to rural North Carolina. District court judge...
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Margaret Maron. Grand Central, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4555-4528-5
In MWA Grand Master Maron’s outstanding 19th mystery featuring judge Deborah Knott of North Carolina’s Colleton County (after 2012’s The Buzzard Table), Deborah’s elderly aunt, Rachel Morton, lies near death in a hospice. Rachel attracts a crowd of...
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Margaret Maron. Grand Central, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-55582-1
In Maron's intriguing 18th Deborah Knott mystery, the North Carolina judge teams with the author's other series lead, NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald, as she did in 2011's Agatha-winning Three-Day Town. When Sigrid and her mother,...
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Margaret Maron. Grand Central, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-55578-4
Bestseller Maron’s charming 17th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2010’s Christmas Mourning) takes the North Carolina judge and her husband of one year, Dwight Bryant, to New York City for a belated honeymoon. They bear an unusual gift, a small bronze...
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $23.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-89296-780-3
Known best for her Deborah Knott novels (Slow Dollar, etc.) and her Sigrid Harald series (Fugitive Colors, etc.), Edgar-winner Maron has produced a standalone gem, set in North Carolina's Piedmont country, that focuses on a large matriarchal...
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Margaret Maron, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $42 (208p) ISBN 978-1-932009-10-1
Margaret Maron's Suitable for Hanging: Selected Stories showcases 20 tales by the Edgar-winning creator of the Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald series. Along with two new short stories, the book includes a brief introduction by ...
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-89296-567-0
Although it has been five years since readers last met NYPD homicide detective Lt. Sigrid Harald (in Past Imperfect), only two fictional months have elapsed since Sigrid's lover, painter Oscar Nauman, died and left his entire estate, worth millions,
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $18.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-89296-447-5
North Carolina Judge Deborah Knott, introduced in the multiple award-winning Bootlegger's Daughter , returns in her third adventure in as many years. Maron constructs a tight mystery, peoples it with an original cast and powerfully evokes her Outer...
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $32 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-654-7
In a disappointing fifth entry in a robust series (Bootlegger's Daughter; Up Jumps the Devil, etc.), district court judge Deborah Knott substitutes on the bench for a vacationing colleague in High Point, North Carolina's furniture center, during the
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-89296-568-7
With vivid detail and engaging, credible characters, Maron's series featuring North Carolina district court judge Deborah Knott (Edgar winner Bootlegger's Daughter, etc.) brings to life fictional Colleton County and chronicles a charming but rapidly
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $32 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-655-4
Maron's series featuring North Carolina Circuit Court Judge Deborah Knott got off to a great start when the launch novel, Bootlegger's Daughter (1992), swept the Edgar, the Macavity and the Anthony awards for best novel. The series is notable for...
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Margaret Maron, Author Doubleday Books $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-385-41364-0
The fatal shooting of off-duty detective Michael Cluett, recently transferred from Manhattan to Brooklyn and days short of his 40-year tenure, sets off the series of intertwining investigations pursued in Maron's engrossing procedural. After the...
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In this eighth book in the Judge Deborah Knott series (after 2000's Storm Track), Maron employs spare, straightforward prose and the languid language of the Carolina Piedmont to spin an exceptionally gripping tale of hate, jealousy and murder....
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $28 (272p) ISBN 978-0-89296-656-1
Judge Deborah Knott of the Colleton County (N.C.) District Court is one of the most delightful and original of contemporary amateur detectives. The youngest of 12 children--and the only girl--she knows everyone in the county and is never shy about...
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Margaret Maron, Author Mysterious Press $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-89296-445-1
Maron's ( Past Imperfect ) series launch introduces attorney Deborah Knott, the daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger, in an atmospheric adventure mixing Southern politics and a mysterious killing`unsolved murder' in next sentence ....
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Margaret Maron, Grand Central, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-55580-7
The death of Mallory Johnson, a popular high school cheerleader, in a suspicious car crash propels Edgar-winner Maron's satisfying 16th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2009's Sand Sharks). While Deborah, a Colleton County, N.C., judge, and her huge...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (291p) ISBN 978-0-446-19611-6
Discovering a murdered colleague isn't quite the adventure Deborah Knott anticipated during her getaway/conference in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., but as fans of Maron's Edgar- and Anthony-winning series know, trouble seems to cling to her...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-446-19610-9
Agatha-winner Maron’s outstanding 14th novel to feature Judge Deborah Knott (after 2007’s Hard Row
) charts the social changes in rural Colleton County, N.C., as housing developments and shopping malls squeeze out small farmers. The...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-446-58243-8
Fans of Edgar-winner Maron’s reliably pleasing Deborah Knott series will be glad to see the North Carolina judge back on the bench in this intriguing 13th mystery (after 2006’s Winter’s Child
). Deborah has to decide a high-stakes...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (324p) ISBN 978-0-89296-810-7
Whoever shot J.D. Rouse dead in his pickup truck gives "taking out the trash" a whole new meaning at the start of Maron's outstanding 12th Deborah Knott mystery. Judge Deborah Knott and her new husband, Colleton County, N.C., chief...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-89296-809-1
At the start of Maron's first-rate 11th Deborah Knott mystery (after 2004's High Country Fall
), the judge and her fiancé, sheriff deputy Dwight Bryant, are distracted from their impending nuptials by a fatal car crash involving...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $24 (303p) ISBN 978-0-89296-808-4
The leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure (after 2002's Slow Dollar
). Asked to fill in for a vacationing judge up in the Blue Ridge high country, Deborah jumps at the chance to...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7862-5849-9
HKnown best for her Deborah Knott novels (Slow Dollar, etc.) and her Sigrid Harald series (Fugitive Colors, etc.), Edgar-winner Maron has produced a standalone gem, set in North Carolina's Piedmont country, that focuses on a large matriarchal...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-89296-764-3
Step right up! Play a game and win your girl a prize! The carnival's in town and Maron brings to this ninth Judge Deborah Knott mystery (after 2001's Uncommon Clay) the vigor and verve that have served her so well to date. Larceny, both...
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Margaret Maron, Author . Mysterious $12.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-446-67766-0
NYPD detective Sigrid Harald and her artist-lover, Oscar Nauman, navigate two murder scenarios to ring in the yuletide in this welcome reissue of a 1989 Maron puzzler. When Dr. Roger Shambly, newest trustee at the Erich Breul House Gallery, is found
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