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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 divorce case with a no-show husband as well as preside over a growing caseload involving migrant workers pitted against locals. Meanwhile, body parts begin to appear in rural Colleton County that turn out to belong to Buck Harris, a farmer known for his exploitation of cheap immigrant labor who happens to be Deborah's missing divorce plaintiff. When Knott's new husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, investigates the immigrants living on the Harris farm, he uncovers a sequence of events that suggest something much more damaging than the sheer indifference the victim had shown to his workers. As Deborah adjusts to becoming the stepmother of Dwight's motherless eight-year-old son, Cal, her large extended family debates the future of their own family farm. Readers will eagerly await further developments in the next book. (Aug.)
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott is adjusting to her recent marriage to sheriff's department investigator Dwight Bryant and the addition to her household of a stepson, Cal, when human body parts begin appearing throughout the county. Bryant is charged with identifying the victim and finding his killer. Also, an elderly man has disappeared from a nursing home, and his daughter is frantic. Bryant, with Deborah's help, identifies the victim, a man who was not well liked in the community. While the search for the killer continues, Deborah deals with the challenges of learning to mother and discipline a stepson and to be part of a couple after years of living on her own. In this long-running series, now in its thirteenth installment, Maron continues to produce an effective mix of mystery and domestic drama, drawing on Deborah's large extended family (she is the youngest of 12 children and the only girl) for nicely individualized secondary characters. There is an established audience for this series, and they will welcome the latest. O'Brien, Sue This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Beware of Spoilers in Reviews about This Satisfying Mystery, Oct. 1 2007
This review is from: Hard Row (Hardcover)
All's well in the Deborah Knott series, to me, when Deborah is sitting on the bench as judge deciding cases. Hard Row is well endowed with such scenes. If you are a fan of the series, you would be foolish to skip this one: It's a gem. But I've noticed that some published reviews by prominent sources contain spoilers about this book. Be careful what you read in advance or you may lose some of the fun of this rewarding mystery.

The better mystery series with women as the detectives find a way to combine a look at family life with the cases at hand. Margaret Maron is particularly adept in Hard Row in developing that family element as Deborah and Dwight Bryant get used to married life with Dwight's son Cal who is eight. There is also a sequence of fun scenes involving Deborah's family trying to figure out what crops to grow now that tobacco isn't very profitable any more. As usual, I was grateful for the reminder facing page one about who all of Deborah's relatives are.

Ms. Maron also does a fine job with exploring the challenges that face modern farmers as they balance their natural desire to earn a profit with the important need to be a decent person. You'll find out about the role that prejudice can play in this regard as well.

As the book opens, someone is strewing body parts all over the county. Dwight keeps getting called out to investigate the next one. Will they ever find a whole corpse? Deborah is also troubled by defendants and litigants who don't seem to understand what they are supposed to do in the legal process.

You would think that a married couple would share enough pillow talk to make solving mysteries pretty easy, but that's not the case for this pair as ethical considerations often require keeping knowledge separate from one another. But Ms. Maron is a genius at developing plot complications that allow the correct information to get into the right hands.

The book is also filled with good humor, always kicked off by the friendly advice quoted in each chapter's opening from Profitable Farming in the Southern States, 1890. By using quite a few different narrators, you also are able to enjoy many perspectives on various characters and their actions, such as Reid's habits when it comes to umbrellas.

This is a very fine book. It would work well as a standalone if you haven't read any books in the series before. But I do recommend that you start in the beginning, rather than here. You have a treat ahead of you if you do.
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