Margaret Maron Books In Order

One Coffee With

A new series featuring NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald There was more than coffee in Professor Quinn’s morning coffee. Someone in the art department office had slipped in a spoonful of poison. Among the suspects are a young secretary, an enraged Hungarian maintenance man, and a colleague who had an affair with Quin’s wife. NYPD detective Sigrid Harold is called in to find the killer with an artistic temperament and an aptitude for death.

Death of a Butterfly

Available again! Lt. Sigrid Harald’s 2nd Outing. One of Margaret Maron’s hardest to find titles.

Death in Blue Folders

NYPD Detective Sigrid Harald investigates the death of a prominent lawyer whose apparently respectable law practice was a front for greed and caprice. By the author of Corpus Christmas and Death of a Butterfly.

The Right Jack

NYPD Homicide Detective Sigrid Harald’s partner, Detective Tildon, should have been safe at his cribbage tournament in a posh Manhattan hotel but a bomb blast leaves him in intensive care. Sigrid is sent to investigate who the real target was.

Baby Doll Games

The new novel featuring homicide detective Sigrid Harald When a shadowy figure kills a dancer in a little Greenwich Village theatre before an audience of horrified children, Sigrid is outraged. Her instincts tell her it was a crime of passion, but she has no evidence. To find out the truth she uses special dolls to get the children to talk about what happened that fateful night ? for the solution of the crimes lies in what an innocent child witnessed.

Corpus Christmas

A relic of Manhattan’s Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious art and one Christmas corpse. Now it’s up to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald to wrap up this homicide before the killer strikes again in this classic mystery by the author of ‘Rituals of the Season.’

Past Imperfect

Looking into the murder of Mickey Cluett, an incompetent cop disliked by most of his peers, Sigrid Harald, the daughter of a cop killed on duty, discovers that this case might provide a clue to her own father’s murder.

Fugitive Colors

Grieving over the deaths of a fellow officer and her artist lover, NYPD lieutenant Sigrid Harald is swept into New York’s fashionable art world, where she discovers an undercurrent of treachery. AB.

Bootlegger’s Daughter

This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah’s campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.

Southern Discomfort

Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge’s sudden death and some old fashioned political horse trading have won her a governor’s appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomanAid, is at the reception, too. Not only has she come to collect the leftovers for her daycare center, but she’s also there to collect on one of Deborah’s more extravagant campaign promises. Before Deborah can say, ‘If elected..’. she is committed to putting her muscle where her mouth was, spending weekends with an all woman crew as the group attempts to build its first house for a needy single mom. Old stereotypes die hard. Herman Knott, one of Deborah’s numerous brothers, has to be hectored and cajoled before he’ll give reluctant permission for his daughter and novice electrician Annie Sue to wire the house. Nor does it help that the county building inspector is a swaggering chauvinist nit picker who’s more interested in scoring with the young women than scoring their work. Chaos erupts before the house is even half finished. On the same rainy summer night that Herman collapses on the side of the road from an apparent heart attack, Annie Sue is found battered and half naked in the deserted structure. Has she been raped? Who left her in that condition? And whose blood is that on Deborah’s own hammer? Dwight Bryant, an old childhood friend and a bit of a good ol’ boy, is a modern and efficient police detective, but it is Deborah who must judge whether dark secrets in her own family have led to murder. And if so, reveal the darkermore troubling reasons why.

Shooting at Loons

Visiting North Carolina’s lush Crystal Coast, Judge Deborah Knott becomes aware of stirring hostility between local fisherfolk and developers and discovers the murdered body of a man who had served as a peacemaker between the two groups. NYT. PW.

Up Jumps the Devil

Murder usually begins at home, and Colleton County, North Carolina, proves no exception. When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her Aunt Zell’s best chicken casseroles. Mistake Number One. Dallas wasn’t rich, but with development eating up the farms and forests of North Carolina his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too aware of its value. Opportunistsincluding one Deborah’s own brothers are coming out of the woodwork. And she knows big money makes people do bad things. Hardworking, redneck, and salt of the earth, the Stancil men have lived side by side with Deborah’s family. When the Stancils suffer another tragedy, a long hidden skeleton rattles its bones and jumps out of what she thought was her long dead past. She can run the culprit back out of town or maybe get him charged with murder, but ignoring him would be Mistake Number Two. All around the changing South, Deborah sees hunting dogs, rowdy funerals, backwoods moonshine stills, and long bed pickups clashing with BMW driving professionals and housing tracts. With one foot in the rural past and the other in today’s high tech present, she knows her personal world is changing too. This bootlegger’s daughter sits on the judicial bench and sees both sides of the law. But she also feels the tug of her roots…
and the pull of her heart.

Killer Market

In the fifth novel in the acclaimed Judge Deborah Knott series, Edgar Allan Poe Award winning, bestselling author Margaret Maron furnishes her popular Southern sleuth with a case to die for. When Deborah Knott fills in for a district court judge in High Point, North Carolina, she has no idea that the International Home Furnishings Market, with the largest assortment of furniture and home decorations in the world, will be taking over the town while she’s there. And when the son in law of an old law school classmate turns up dead on a pink satin loveseat with Deborah’s handbag found at the scene of the crime she must table her plans, clear her name and find an assassin who puts his work on display.

Home Fires

If there’s truly such a thing as an American ‘cozy,’Margaret Maron’s novels of the contemporary South fit the bill. Not that DeborahKnott, the sexy, smart young district court judge whose extended family of 10siblings, a curmudgeonly father who used to be a moonshiner, anduncles, aunts, nephews, and nieces too numerous to count, bears anyresemblance to the maiden ladies of that beloved British genre. But like herEnglish counterparts, Maron eschews blood and gore, and concentratesinstead on manners, mores, and motives. And she has few equals on either sideof the Atlantic; she weaves telling portraits of ordinary people coping with out of the ordinary circumstances, often in less thana couple of sentences, and tells the whole history of a landscape and a wayof life in one short paragraph. In this tradition, Home Fires delineates the remnants of prejudice that linger like an indeliblestain on the fabric of race relations in mostly rural Colleton County,North Carolina. When Deborah’s family calls on her to help her teenagenephew, who’s accused of vandalizing a family cemetery with racialepithets and hate slogans, she butts heads with an angry, aggressive, blackfemale D.A., a charismatic preacher, and an activist and former Black Pantherwhose closet full of skeletons seems linked to the church arsons. As theplot unfolds, Maron brings the New South into focus, illuminating notonly its physical beauty and the complexity of its inhabitants but also thechanges and problems caused by integration. Deborah is a steel magnoliawhose own fires smolder sexily in scenes with Kidd, her lover, and whose ownvalues and beliefs come in for a penetrating reexamination in this newestin the popular series from Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and MacavityAward winning author Maron. Jane Adams

Storm Track

Judge Deborah Knott returns in this mystery that unfolds as Hurricane Fran hits Colleton County, North Carolina. When a local attorney’s wife is murdered, and as her numerous lovers scurry for cover stories, the judge begins her own investigation and finds a tangled web of extramarital affairs and secrets linking half the county.

Uncommon Clay

8 CD’s. Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke. When she decrees that the divorcing Nordan couple split their valuable earthenware collection, the husband winds up dead in his own kiln! Many people have motives and the clay wheel swirls with suspects. C.J. Critts narration heightens the suspense in this familys story of long time grudges, murder, unbearable pain, and loss. This exciting novel is as rich as the red clay pottery of North Carolina

Slow Dollar

A traveling carnival arrives front and center in Mar garet Marons offbeat new entry in the award winning Deborah Knott mystery series. For Judge Knott, the case before her seems to be an ordinary misdemeanorexcept that the personal property thats been destroyed is an inflatable carnival ride. When the carnival comes to her own town a few weeks later, Deborah soon discovers theres nothing ordinary about this rag tag collection of rides and games. Why does the ride owners charm bracelet awaken half forgotten memories? And what is her connection to Deborahs own family? When one of the concessionaires is found dead, his mouth stuffed with quarters from his game of chance, Deborah soon learns that he was also chancing a little blackmail on the sideblackmail that may threaten one of her brothers. In carnie lingo, A fast dime is better than a Slow Dollar. Torn between judicial ethics and family love, Deborah must decide who gets which before more lives are ruined and the carnival moves on.

High Country Fall

In her newest novel featuring popular Judge Deborah Knott, multiple prize winning author Margaret Maron explores the achingly beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, where leaves are turning…
and corpses are deadly still. No one is more surprised than Judge Deborah Knott by her engagement to her childhood friend Dwight Bryant. Stressed out by the impending marriage, Deborah agrees to fill in for a vacationing judge in the hills of Cedar Gap. With its fresh mountain air and gorgeous fall foliage, it’s the perfect place to clear her head…
until a local doctor is brutally murdered. Presiding over the probable cause case against the main suspect, Deborah decides the trial can proceed. But when a second person is killed, Deborah begins to look at this case and her relationship with Dwight with more critical eyes. And if she fails to notice the fast approaching darkness, she could end up as another corpse in the High Country Fall…

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. Margaret Maron swept the top mystery awards with her first Deborah Knott hardcover, ‘Bootlegger’s Daughter Mysterious Press, 1992, receiving the Edgar1 Award for Best Mystery Novel, the Agatha Award, the Macavity, and the Anthony. She also won a 1992 Agatha Award for the short story that introduced the character of Deborah Knott, and later, she received the Agatha Award for Best Novel for ‘Up Jumps the Devil Mysterious Press, 1996. Maron was nominated for an Agatha Award for ‘Home Fires Mysterious Press, 1998, and most recently, ‘Storm Track Mysterious Press, 2000 won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. ‘Last Lessons of Summer Mysterious Press, 2003, was also nominated for an Agatha Award. ‘Last Lessons of Summer, Slow Dollar, and Uncommon Clay were all selected as Mystery Guild Main Selections.

Winter’s Child

It’s one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryant until a disturbing call from Dwight’s 8 year old son Cal calls him back to Virginia. When he arrives, he is shocked to find that his ex wife has left the boy alone for almost 24 hours. Worse, as Dwight tries to confront her, she takes the child and leaves town without a word. As Dwight embarks on an all points search, Deborah hurries to his side. But will they be able to work together to decipher the ex wife’s motives and, more importantly, will they find young Cal before he comes to harm?

Hard Row

As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina, but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well. Mutilated body parts have appeared along the back roads of Colleton County, and the search for the victim’s identity and for that of his killer will lead Deborah and her new husband, Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant, into the desperate realm of undocumented farm workers exploited for cheap labor. In the meantime, Deborah and Dwight continue to adjust to married life and to having Dwight’s eight year old son, Cal, live with them full time. 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.

Death’s Half Acre

Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.

Sand Sharks

Judge Deborah Knott can’t wait to trade the lush fields of Colleton County for the clear blue ocean and long stretches of sand at Wrightsville Beach. A summer conference for the North Carolina district court judges couldn’t come soon enough for Deborah, who is overwhelmed by her newly married life and the responsibilities of being a mom. Lying beneath the hot summer sun in Wrightsville and reconnecting with old friends over delicious seafood dinners in nearby Wilmington, Deborah finally begins to unwind. But tensions are building beneath the surface of this seemingly peaceful resort area. Deborah’s relaxing trip to the seaside takes a sudden, dark turn when she stumbles upon the strangled corpse of one of her less admired colleagues. It doesn’t take long before she realizes that the killer may have another target, much closer to home. Unwilling to stand idly by while the murderer draws near, Deborah begins to investigate alone. At each turn, her list of suspects grows to include everyone from her judicial colleagues and friends to local television personalities and restaurant employees, and soon it seems that anyone in Wilmington could be capable of murder.

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. A beautiful young cheerleader dies in a car crash and the community is devastated by her death. Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant soon learns that her death was not a simple accident, and more lives may be lost unless he and Deborah can discover why she died.

Three-Day Town

Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Bryant are on a train to New York, finally on a honeymoon after a year of marriage. January in New York might not be the perfect time to visit, but they’ll take it. The trip is a Christmas present from Dwight’s sister in law, who arranged for them to stay in an Upper West Side apartment for one week. While in New York, Deborah has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that it is missing and the doorman has been murdered. Despite their best efforts to enjoy a blissful getaway, Deborah and Dwight soon find that they’ve teamed up with Sigrid and her team to catch the killer before he strikes again.

Bloody Kin

‘Margaret Maron is one of the best writers in the business. Read her. That’s an order.’-Elizabeth Peters

After Jake Honeycutt dies in a hunting accident, his pregnant wife Kate moves to his family farm in North Carolina and soon discovers that she is a Yankee outsider, and that Jake’s death was no accident.

Margaret Maron is the author of twenty-six crime novels, including Bootlegger’s Daughter, which is the only mystery to have won all of the major mystery awards: the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Agatha awards.

Last Lessons of Summer

Hailed as ‘one of the most seamless Southern writers since Margaret Mitchell’ by Publishers Weekly, Margaret Maron has won multiple awards and received immense acclaim for her hugely popular Deborah Knott series. Now Maron introduces us to a new hero*ine who returns to her North Carolina roots to unearth the darkest secrets of her past. In the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, has come to clean out the house of her murdered grandmother and perhaps find some answers. Beneath her quiet, accommodating manner, a storm is brewing. For here in this gracious home, Amy’s own mother had committed suicide when her daughter was barely three years old. The tragedy put an end to her mother’s turbulent marriage to Amy’s father. But the secrets surrounding her mother’s death live on. Sorting through her grandmother’s things, Amy reflects on the parallels between her parents’ relationship and the growing suspicions she has about her own husband, who may love her legacy more than he loves her. As she rediscovers the tobacco rich land where she spent her childhood summers, Amy meets relatives she never knew, and feels an unexpected emotional connection with the burly, knowing state investigator looking into her grandmother’s murder. Suddenly, she begins to connect the dots between her troubled life and the heritage that has shaped her. Yet the more she learns, the closer she comes to a murderous force who may be in her own family one who will not hesitate to lie, deceive, or kill…

Shoveling Smoke

The creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events, about how past generations continue to our world, about how the domestic situation can breed both warmth and quiet despair. In short, Maron sees the mystery story as concerned with people as well as puzzles. Shoveling Smoke contains twenty two of Margaret Maron’s best short stories, from her very first published mystery to her most recent tales. The book includes all of the short cases of Sigrid Harald and Deborah Knott, as well as other mysteries set in Knott’s Colleton County. Some of the stories show how crime can emerge from ordinary situations; others recapture the Golden Age delight in twisty plotting with seemingly impossible crimes reminiscent of John Dickson Carr and dying messages harking back to Ellery Queen. But in all the stories, Maron’s personal voice, her concern for people, is dominant. The book concludes with the first publication of a new story about Deborah Knott and a complete checklist of Margaret Maron’s mystery novels and short stories.

Suitable for Hanging

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE FROM AN EDGAR WINNER

The creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events. In Maron’s work the mystery story is as concerned with people as well as with puzzles.

Suitable for Hanging contains twenty of Margaret Maron s best uncollected short stories, beginning with an early tale of a hitman trying to escape from the mob, to her newest stories about Deborah Knott and other mysteries set on Knott s Colleton County. And one, featuring Roman Tramegra from the Lt. Sigrid Harald novels, takes place in Venice.

The book includes two new short stories, and an introduction and prefaces to each story by the author as well as a complete checklist of Margaret Maron’s writings in the mystery field.

Cover painting, illustrating’The Dog That Didn’t Bark,’ by Carol Heyer.

Malice Domestic 1 (By:Elizabeth Peters)

A collection of mystery tales presents the work of such masters of the genre as Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, and Audrey Peterson.

Malice Domestic 2 (By:Mary Higgins Clark)

An anthology of 17 tradidtional mysteries collected by master mystery writer Mary Higging Clark. Pages 6. 38′ x 4. 12′

Malice Domestic 7 (By:Sharyn McCrumb)

The Malice Domestic mystery is a mystery of manners. No blood, no body parts, just nice civilized murder. And in this collection, thirteen outstanding mystery writers explore the unlucky fates of those who indulge their most murderous fantasies.

Malice Domstic 8

Margaret Maron Presents MALICE DOMESTIC 8 An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories Bear witness to murder most fouls and its finest scribes: Nevada Barr Amanda Cross Mary Daheim Jonathan Gash Edward D. Hoch Susan Holtzer H.R.F. Keating Susan Kenney Alanna Knight Janet Laurence Miriam Grace Monfredo Sister Carol Anne O’Marie Abigail Padget & Douglas Dennis Sample a delectable bit of the mysterious, the bizarre, and the murderously outrageous Cyber love meets sabotage in a case of romance gone dreadfully wrong A writer with an exclusive story finds a way to keep his source quiet for good London during the blitz provides an excellent place to bury trouble AND MORE!

The Crown Crime Companion

The Crown Crime CompanionThe Top 100 Mystery Novels Of All TimeSelected by theMystery Writers Of AmericaAnnotated by 0tto Penzler and Compiled by Mickey FriedmanFor The Crown Crime Companion, the Mystery Writers of America have compiled a list of the best 100 mystery novels of all time, as well as a list of favorites in ten categories. Fully annotated and reviewed by Otto Penzler, this list of the top 100 mysteries will be a valuable resource to fans, introducing them to new novels and reminding them about books by favorite writers they may have missed. Each of the ten category lists is introduced by a master of that category:Classics:Suspense:Hardboiled/Private Eye:Police Procedural:Espionage/Thriller:Criminal:Cozy/Traditional:Historical:Humorous:Legal/Courtroom:H.R.F. KeatingMary Higgins ClarkSue GraftonJoseph WambaughJohn GardnerRichard CondonMargaret MaronPeter LoveseyGregory McdonaldScott Turow

Women Before the Bench

Sharp, shrewd, and skillfully presented, this ingenious anthology of legal drama and suspense features all new stories by some of the top writers in the field and a special introduction from renowned attorney Linda Fairstein. Includes new, original stories by: Perri O’Shaughnessy Jonnie Jacobs Taffy Cannon Michael A. Kahn Claire Youmans Rochelle Krich Carroll Lachnit Sarah Caudwell Jeremiah Healy Margaret Coel Nora DeLoach Carolyn Wheat Margaret Maron

Malice Domestic 10

Clue into a world of murder and mayhem from the ingenious minds of today’s most fiendishly clever mystery writers:K.K. Beck, Simon Brett, Susan Dunlap, Carolyn Hart, Melodie Johnson Howe, M.D. Lake, Martha C. Lawrence, Peter Lovesey, Margaret Maron, Sujata Massey, Katherine Hall Page, Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard and Elizabeth Daniels SquireWitness the crimes and uncover the evidence of murder at its most unusual…
and diabolical A screenwriter scorned plots a chilling revenge suitable for celluloid A four footed sleuth takes on the perplexing case of the missing Christmas goose A widow who narrowly escapes death has a surprise in store for her would be slayer A cheating quartet of married lovers plans the perfect crime And More! The Malice Domestic Series

Tar Heel Dead

From O. Henry to Lilian Jackson Braun, North Carolina has nurtured some of the world’s best known mystery writers. This unique collection of mystery short stories showcases some of North Carolina’s best writing talent from the past and the present some famous, some less well known. Some of the mysteries are by authors who have earned solid reputations in other genres, such as Orson Scott Card and William Brittain, but as their stories here demonstrate, their talent embraces the mysterious.

The stories in this collection are as diverse as the ‘detectives’ they feature: the Native American policeman who solves his first case on the reservation; a Siamese cat with an intuitive affection for his paraplegic neighbor; an attentive convenience store owner; and a thirty year old computer whiz whose body stopped growing when he was nine. They solve crimes, locate treasures, and uncover deceit in a range of tales that reflects the breadth of the genre. With stories to delight mystery devotees and fans of all good writing, this anthology highlights one of the most vibrant and popular elements of North Carolina’s literary legacy.

A Study in Sherlock

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one of a kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with the Great Detective. Thomas Perry, for example, has Dr. Watson tell his tale, in a virtuoso work of alternate history that finds President McKinley approaching the sleuth with a disturbing request; Lee Child sends an FBI agent to investigate a crime near today’s Baker Street only to get a twenty first century shock; Jacqueline Winspear spins a story of a plucky boy inspired by the detective to make his own deductions; and graphic artist Colin Cotterill portrays his struggle to complete this assignment in his hilarious The Mysterious Case of the Unwritten Short Story. In perfect tribute comes this delicious collection of twisty, clever, and enthralling studies of a timeless icon. Featuring stories from Alan BradleyTony BroadbentJan BurkeLionel ChetwyndLee ChildColin Cotterill Neil GaimanLaura LippmanGayle Lynds & John SheldonPhillip & Jerry MargolinMargaret MaronThomas PerryS. J. RozanDana StabenowCharles ToddJacqueline Winspear print version only