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 at the theatre.

Recently widowed Kate Honeycutt returns to North Carolina and finds that another of her husband's old war buddies from Vietnam has been killed and that the man who may have the answers has disappeared

While attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by campaigning for district judge of Colleton County, North Carolina, attorney Deborah Knott tries to solve a senseless, eighteen-year-old murder and stumbles upon decades-old secrets. Reissue.

Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.

Product Description: New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new Deborah Knott mystery . . . THE BUZZARD TABLEJudge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

When art historian Dr. Roger Shambley, the trustee of a collection by a reclusive artist, is found dead after a posh New York Christmas party, Lieutenant Sigrid Harald, the artist's girlfriend, investigates. Reprint.

Product Description: THIRD IN THE SIGRID HARALD SERIES Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps 'special' cases in blue folders that only he can access, but when Gladwell announces his impending retirement, someone decides that Blue Folder secrets aren't safe unless everyone connected to them is dead...read more

New York City Police Lieutenant Sigrid Harald finds herself investigating a case involving blackmail, half a million dollars worth of stolen jewels, and murder

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.

When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel's bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn't passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, her extended family, and what seems like half of Colleton County, a semi-conscious Rachel breaks weeks of pained silence with snippets of stories as randomly pieced together as a well-worn patchwork quilt. But the Knott family's joy quickly gives way to shock: less than an hour later, Aunt Rachel is found dead in her bed, smothered with a pillow. Who would kill a woman on her deathbed? Was it an act of mercy, or murder? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigate they cross paths with an unlikely set of suspects: Rachel's longtime minister; her neighbor, the respected local doctor; the friendly single father who often sought her advice; and perhaps the most puzzling party of all, the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers that Rachel's own daughter belongs to. Soon Deborah and Dwight realize that the key to solving this case is hidden in Rachel's mysterious final words. Her mixed-up memories harbored a dark secret-a secret that someone close to them is determined to bury forever.

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. Reprint. AB.

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.

Judge Deborah Knott has agreed to marry her childhood friend, Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, but it's hardly the love match of the century. Indeed she now questions whether friendship, mutual history and good sex are really enough to make a strong marriage. Her antidote to cold feet: head for the hills. When asked to fill in for a vacationing judge in Cedar Gap Deborah readily agrees. It seems the perfect place to clear her head but she arrives in time to hear the case against a young man who's been arrested for the brutal murder of a prominent doctor. Then, with the suspicious death of a second resident, Deborah realizes that she must examine Cedar Gap through critical eyes. And what she sees will rock her with an entirely new theory about the murder case...and her impending marriage.

Taking an out-of-town assignment in a privileged community to put distance between herself and her hyper-reactive family, recently engaged judge Deborah Knott finds her peaceful break disrupted by a local murder that she becomes determined to solve. 40,000 first printing.

While campaigning, judge and occasional sleuth Deborah Knott joins forces with exBlack Panther Wallace Adderly to discover who is responsible for the fiery destruction of two AfricanAmerican churchesone of which caused the death of a young man. Reprint.

In the fifth installment of this engaging series, Judge Deborah Knott is filling in for a district court judge in High Point, North Carolina, when she is cleverly framed for murder, and must clear her name while searching for the real killer. Reissue.

In the fifth installment of this engaging series, Judge Deborah Knott is filling in for a district court judge in High Point, North Carolina, when she is cleverly framed for murder, and must clear her name while searching for the real killer. Tour.

Inheriting her family's successful business, Amy Stedman reflects on her marriage to a man who seems to love her only for her money, her mother's apparent suicide in the wake of a deceitful husband, her grandmother's unsolved murder, and the possibility that she may be targeted next. Reprint.

"Margaret Maron, "New York Times" bestselling author and Mystery Writers of America Grand Master, returns to Colleton County with an exciting new Deborah Knott mystery . . . " LONG UPON THE LAND On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute. The local newspaper implies that Deborah's family may have had something to do with the murder-and that Dwight is dragging his feet on the case. Meanwhile, Deborah is given a cigarette lighter that once belonged to her mother. The cryptic inscription inside rekindles Deborah's curiosity about her parents' past, and how they met. For years she has wondered how the daughter of a wealthy attorney could have married a widowed, semi-illiterate bootlegger, and this time she's determined to find the answer. But why are Deborah's brothers so reluctant to talk about the dead man? Is the murder linked to Kezzie's illegal whiskey business? And could his courtship of Deborah's mother have something to do with the bad blood between the two families? Despite Deborah's promise not to interfere in Dwight's work, she cannot stop herself from doing everything she can to help clear her brothers and her father from suspicion . . .

Original short stories by Nevada Barr, Amanda Cross, Mary Daheim, Jonathan Gash, Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, Susan Kenney, Abigail Padgett, Lynda Robinson, and other notable authors highlight a new collection of traditional cozy mystery tales. Original.

Product Description: 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...read more

Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the NYPD must confront secrets in her past in order to solve the murder of police detective Mick Cluett, murdered a mere sixty-one days short of retirement