Up Jumps the Devil

Name: Up Jumps the Devil
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Margaret Maron
ISBN: 9781449800475

Author: Margaret Maron

Series: Deborah Knott Mysteries #4

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Unabridged: 8 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/11/2008

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Best-selling author Margaret Maron's colorful Deborah Knott mysteries crackle with sassy Southern dialogue and rural wisdom. In Up Jumps the Devil, fast-moving progress is threatening to forever destroy the leisurely, heart-warming pace of Colleton County, North Carolina. District court judge Deborah Knott sees trouble brewing when plans for a new interstate highway start pushing up property values. As her own relatives battle lifelong neighbors over selling farmland or holding out, Deborah finds herself calming the combatants with down-home wit-and sometimes, judicial decisions. But when the squabbles escalate to murder, Deborah is forced to search for the killer uncomfortably close to home. Margaret Maron skillfully draws on her North Carolina roots to pen her well-crafted, suspenseful mysteries. Her creative talents have earned her the coveted Edgar, Agatha, Macavity, and Anthony Awards. Salt-of-the-earth characters, vivid with lilting, down-home humor and unwavering opinions, step from the pages when narrator C.J. Critt breathes life into them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean

This is book four in the series about life in a contemporary rural small town in North Carolina. The book was published in 1996. Our protagonist Judge Deborah Knott is a personable character that makes the series work. Even though the book is placed in North Carolina it could be any small rural town......more

Goodreads review by Hope

This book has excellent narration. Ms. Critt gets the voices just right. I had been thinking she's from NC until she read the part about Kinston, NC. She pronounced it "KinGston" :) Otherwise, it was a perfectly smooth narration. I really enjoy the sense of place in these novels. I enjoy Ms. Maron's......more

Goodreads review by Smoochys

The best part of this book, which is true of most of her books, is Deborah's family ties. It's interesting because at it's base they are a bunch of farmers. But the base branched out into other careers (teacher, lawyer/judge, auctioneer, entrepreneur, etc.). No matter the level of success you achiev......more

Goodreads review by Richard

This is another delightful Deborah Knott master. It is full of good family, good story, and good issues, but the fact that it has a sudden frightening ending does not make it great as I never did see why the person who supposedly did the killings did them. There was no real explanation as to how the......more