Christmas Mourning (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery) - Hardcover

Maron, Margaret

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9781410430014: Christmas Mourning (Thorndike Press Large Print Mystery)

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ISBN 10: 1410430014 ISBN 13: 9781410430014

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2010

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After a beautiful young cheerleader dies in a car crash that turns out not to be an accident, Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant must uncover what really happened before more death further clouds the Christmas season in North Carolina's Colleton County. (mystery & detective). By the author of Sand Sharks. Simultaneous.

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About the Author:

MARGARET MARON grew up in the country near Raleigh, North Carolina, but for many years lived in Brooklyn, New York. When she and her artist husband returned to the farm that had been in her family for a hundred years, she began a series based on her own background. The first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, became a Washington Post bestseller that swept the major mystery awards for its year-winning the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for Best Novel-and is among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Later Deborah Knott novels Up Jumps the Devil, Storm Track, and Three-Day Town each also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Margaret is also the author of the Sigrid Harald series of detective novels. In 2008, Maron received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the highest civilian honor the state bestows on its authors. And in 2013, the Mystery Writers of America celebrated Maron's contributions to the mystery genre by naming her a Grand Master-an honor first bestowed on Agatha Christie. To find out more about her, you can visit MargaretMaron.com.

From Booklist:

As Christmas and their first anniversary approach, District Judge Deborah Knott and chief sheriff’s deputy Major Dwight Bryant deal with three deaths in their Colleton County, North Carolina, community. First Mallory Johnson, the golden girl of her senior high-school class, dies after crashing her car on the way home from a party, just two months after two students died and another was crippled, also in a car crash. Days later, the two teenage, ne’er-do-well Wentworth brothers are found shot to death. The community is especially shaken by Mallory’s death, since the homecoming queen and cheerleader was known not to drink or do drugs (although neither was she Little Miss Perfect), but Dwight is diverted from that investigation by the murders. As Deborah and Dwight gather and share information from family and friends about both cases, they find connections to a decades-old death. Yet Deborah carries on her holiday routines, even having a breakthrough with a previously chilly sister-in-law. Maron’s trademark warm humor and Deborah’s and Dwight’s loving kinfolk leaven the tragedy to make this sixteenth in the series another winning entry and a fine holiday mystery. --Michele Leber

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