Death's Half Acre

Reviewed for queuemyreview.com; book release Aug08 Yes! I took a quick break from all things romance to read “Death’s Half Acre” by Margaret Maron. This is a story about greed and murder in small town America. It’s not bloody, it’s not scary, it’s just a good way to pit your ‘li’l grey cells’ against......more

How dare Margaret Maron retire from writing! How selfish of her when I still have books to read and she dares deny those books from me!!?? Seriously Ms. Maron, enjoy your retirement and thank you for two wonderful series, Deborah Knott and Sigrid Harald, two so very different investigators; one prof......more

I love this Judge Deborah Knott mystery series. I got into reading them a few years ago when I heard Margaret Maron speak at the Southeastern Assoc of Law Libraries meeting in Raleigh NC (the books are set in a fictional county near Raleigh--and in other parts of NC). I have read all of this series......more

Another fine entry in one of my favorite series. Maron's Knott family is aptly named, as the relationships can be complicated, but these and the depictions of North Carolina's landscape and culture are interwoven skillfully with the action. The action centers on the apparent suicide of a woman that......more