Southern Discomfort

I liked “The Bootlegger’s Daughter” in 2016 and but waited on the 1993 sequel, until I recently located a mint condition copy of “Southern Discomfort”. Family colour, town atmosphere, and humour were excellent and brought personal, relatable touches that Margaret Maron surely planned. Friends watchi......more

Recently, and almost entirely by accident, I've been reading books set in rural Virginia and North Carolina. The best of them are this series of mysteries by Margaret Maron, featuring Judge Deborah Knott, a district judge in fictional Colleton County, North Carolina. The first book in the series, Bo......more

This book starts out almost cutesy, as Deborah Knott begins to get the hang of being a judge in small-town North Carolina. It moves into family history, and I found a chart of her family tree helped me appreciate the emotional complexities of her clan. [URL not allowed] The boo......more