A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends with a brutal death ... and Judge Deborah Knott will discover more than a body. For beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface swirl dark secrets that Deborah has kept hidden for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with the demands of the law, she must struggle to win a carny's trust-before the killer pins a bull's-eye on yet another victim.
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this is a great book! i'm glad that i discovered margaret maron.
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i really like this book! it's great to discover a new mystery author.
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This is one of the few mystery series going today that, even with this, the 9th entry, just keeps getting better. There has been only one book (Killer Market) in this series that I found to be even a bit lacking and that is quite unusual in a series that has gone on this long. In this episode, Judge Deborah Knott goes to the local carnival with her friends and discovers a dead body. As she works to solve the murder with her friend Dwight, we are exposed to more of her large family, but it really never gets confusing. Maron manages to make it clear who belongs to whom, even with the added relatives that this tale brings into the picture. The mystery is interesting and hard to solve and, just as importantly, there is progress in Deborah's personal life that is very satisfying to read. I know that Maron's next book is a stand-alone (neither a Knott nor a Harald book...will she ever write more Sigrid Harald books?) but I will definitely buy it. I just hope she returns to North Carolina soon.
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A welcome return to greatness in the Knott series
I thought the last several books in the Deborah Knott series were pretty poor. Mechanical plots, dull characters, uninteresting and implausible mystery solutions. Read more
Published on May 23 2003
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Behind-the-scenes carnival life
Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott Series is a delight and this book certainly does not disappoint. In this latest installment, Judge Knott presides at a case where four young men... Read more
Published on Dec 14 2002 by Karen Potts
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Judge this one a winner!
Deborah Knott, youngest of twelve children and only daughter of ex-bootlegger Kezzie Knott, is a circuit judge in rural North Carolina. Read more
Published on Nov 1 2002 by Dr Cathy Goodwin
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Deborah Knott is back!
Judge Deborah Knott's complicated and extensive family structure gets even more complex in this, her 9th outing for Maron's compelling tales in North Carolina. Read more
Published on Oct 29 2002 by L. Quido
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Involving characters, family, and carnival detail. Fine
Judge Deborah Knott suspects something odd about the carnival that has come to her small North Carolina town, but she doesn't expect murder. Read more
Published on Oct 9 2002 by booksforabuck
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Pick this one up!!
This book was pure pleasure. Living in NC I like to read regional authors. Maron's best book to date.
Published on Oct 9 2002 by Mamapuppy
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A great book in a great series
Judge Deborah Knott, her incredible family and their southern-fried lives are a big part of what makes this series so satisfying to me. Read more
Published on Sep 10 2002
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Possibly the best of the series
I have loved Margaret Maron's books for years, and have loved Deborah Knott and her huge family since "Bootlegger's Daughter. Read more
Published on Aug 25 2002 by Lawrence W. Prichard
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Judge Knott discovers a long lost relative and murder
When the carnival comes to Dobbs, Deborah has already met the owner. Two drunken fools damaged one of her rides and Deborah was the judge to hear the case. Read more
Published on Aug 19 2002 by Moe811
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clever regional mystery
Judge Deborah Knott of Colleton County, North Carolina first meets Tally Ames in the courtroom when the carnival owner presses charges against three local men who damaged one of... Read more
Published on Aug 17 2002 by Harriet Klausner
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