Books written by Margaret Maron

  • Home Fires
    Home Fires

    Never mind that Elaine Marshall was a sharp attorney and former state senator . As he travelled around the state , signing hats and T - shirts , Richard Petty couldn't seem to remember either her name or her title .

  • 27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry
    27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry

    But when wanda Cox-Bailey, branch manager of the richard B. harrison library on New Bern avenue, assured me that she and librarian Thomas hancock, who also owned Capital City Tours, would handle the logistics, i agreed. after all, ...

  • Designated Daughters
    Designated Daughters

    I myself thought they should cut her a little slack considering that she had beaten the big C and had even taken Aunt ... The next minute, she'll start talking about Jacob and Jed like they were still alive and cutting monkeyshines.

  • Uncommon Clay
    Uncommon Clay

    Judge Deborah Knott of Seagrove, North Carolina, must unearth a local family's tragic past to find a vengeful killer in the eighth installment of the award-winning mystery series by Maron.

  • Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015
    Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015

    Several of the stories in Murder Under the Oaks draw on the region's history and culture-including the birth of a secret society at the University of Virginia, a mystery from Edgar Allan Poe's childhood days, and a series of less-than ...

  • The Store of Joy: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary
    The Store of Joy: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary

    The Store of Joy: Writers Celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Art's Fiftieth Anniversary

  • Partners in Crime: A Mystery Anthology
    Partners in Crime: A Mystery Anthology

    A collection of short mysteries features investigating partners, as authors Sharyn McCrumb, Susan Dunlap, Carolyn G. Hart, and others team up private investigators with amateur sleuths, mismatched cops, and rival attorneys. Original.

  • Long Upon the Land
    Long Upon the Land

    “My son named him Diesel,” said Rusty Reynolds. “Because he's got a purr like a diesel truck,” Mrs. Earp said, reaching for the knob on the back door. “Built like one, too. The poor baby must be scared and hungry if he's been shut in ...

  • Take Out
    Take Out

    “Vecchio means old in Italian.” Several years ago, once she had joined the force and had access to its records, Sigrid had read the official reports of Leif Harald's death in the line of duty, but she had concentrated on her father's ...

  • High Country Fall
    High Country Fall

    With friends and family over-reacting to her announcement that she plans to marry Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott gratefully seizes the opportunity to put a five-hour drive between herself and Colleton County when the ...

  • Rituals of the Season
    Rituals of the Season

    - "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.

  • Christmas Mourning
    Christmas Mourning

    It's Christmas in rural North Carolina's Colleton County and Judge Deborah Knott is looking forward to a family celebration when a tragedy clouds the holiday season.

  • Hard Row
    Hard Row

    When another body is found, these newlyweds will discover dark truths that threaten to permanently alter the serenity of their rural surroundings and their new life together.

  • Sand Sharks
    Sand Sharks

    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.

  • Three-Day Town
    Three-Day Town

    Three-Day Town is the winner of the Agatha award for best novel where Deborah and Dwight must team up with Lt. Harald to catch the killer before he strikes again.

  • The Buzzard Table
    The Buzzard Table

    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.

  • Bootlegger's Daughter
    Bootlegger's Daughter

    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 from it, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.

  • Winter's Child
    Winter's Child

    In the chilling twelfth installment of this award-winning series, Judge Deborah Knott’s new marriage will be tested as she and her new husband are drawn into an emotional hunt for his missing ex-wife and son.

  • Death's Half Acre
    Death's Half Acre

    Margaret Maron—winner of the most prestigious awards in mystery fiction—returns with another novel featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Deborah Knott.

  • SHOOTING AT LOONS
    SHOOTING AT LOONS

    "In North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott investigates the death of Tink Taylor, a local fisherman who was a voice of reason in the dispute between commercial fishermen and real estate developers."--Provided by publisher.