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Real estate is at the heart of this novel, the 14th in the Deborah Knott series. Like other places in the South, Margaret Maron's fictional Colleton County has enjoyed/suffered a real estate boom bringing new suburb into direct conflict with the old way of life in the rural South. Judge Deborah Knott sees these conflicts play out in her courtroom every working day.Candace Bradshaw was trailer park trash but she married old money and has parlayed a cleaning service into wealth. Separated from her much older husband and former boss, she's been sleeping her way into political influence and a seat on the planning commission. No one quite believes it when she's found dead, an apparent suicide, but the note in her handwriting implies that she's been taking kickbacks from developers and everyone can believe that!
Deborah is also bothered over the death of the editor to the local paper. He was a victim of a hit-and-run accident months ago, and the police were unable to trace the car. Since then, the local paper has lost its investigative and muckraking edge. Deborah's also worried by her father's strange behavior. Where did he get the jewelry he was showing in the pawn shop?
The one weakness in this book is that we get less of Deborah's first-person narrative. This is because Maron is being fair to the reader, and telling us what Deborah doesn't know. Now what Deborah doesn't find out won't hurt her, but it makes the reader laugh out loud.
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Death Half Acre Margaret Maron C J Critt 9781436123556 Books Reviews
Rated as a 4 because I like some of Margaret Maron's books more. Still a good book but just not as good as others. I would certainly buy the book as part of her wonderful Deborah Knott series.
Margaret Maron has to be the queen of the female PI genre today. Her books are all excellent and this one is no exception. It helps if the reader has started with the first book, Bootlegger's Daughter of the Judge Knott series, but nothing is lost if this is not the case. Manon's writing is crisp, concise, to the point and as the plot develops, she always manages to teach the reader something other than just solve the mystery.
Death's Half Acre is highly recommended for a good read along with all the works of Margaret Maron.
I liked Debra Knott, the whole area she lives in and the characters and plot.
I am a huge fan of Margaret Maron's Knott books. I think part of it may be that the setting is where I live in NC. But the main part is I cannot figure out the ending before I get there which I can usually do with other mysteries. I make it a point to get book in the series when it comes out.
This is another installment in a very good series. This another complex plot with characters we have come to know. In addition to a great story we get another look into the south. I do recommend these books be read in order. I am not sure how interesting this book would be without the character development from previous installments.
This is an interesting, well written novel, but the plot wanders a bit. It is basically about greed, influence peddling, etc. The book opens with a scene in a church where a fundamentalist preacher demands the subjugation and absolute obedience of women. That is a side plot as the story finally gets into the main plot of political conniving by developers. There are some people who never forget a past wrong, but sometimes it depends on whose ox is getting gored, and a common purpose can sometimes make strange bedfellows.
Some parts of the plot may seem a bit predictable, but some parts are surprising. You do get into modern times involving such things as laptop computers and flash drives, and into modern forensic techniques. Human nature, on the other hand, has not changed much.
A likable, if not stellar, entry in Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott series. Definitely worth reading more for the atmosphere than for the predictable plot--the conflict between Colleton county natives and the ever-multiplying newcomers is intersting and colorful. But the poetic epigrams at the chapter heads were of irritatingly poor quality, Deborah's eternal imprudence at the climax of these stories continues to strain the reader's belief, and the tales of corruption just plod along. I hope the next Deborah Knott novel is back on track. If you haven't ready any as yet, consider the wonderful first of the series "Bootlegger's Daughter."
readers note that skips a short introductory portion, and goes directly to Chapter 1. The skipped part is important, so it's worth going back.
Real estate is at the heart of this novel, the 14th in the Deborah Knott series. Like other places in the South, Margaret Maron's fictional Colleton County has enjoyed/suffered a real estate boom bringing new suburb into direct conflict with the old way of life in the rural South. Judge Deborah Knott sees these conflicts play out in her courtroom every working day.
Candace Bradshaw was trailer park trash but she married old money and has parlayed a cleaning service into wealth. Separated from her much older husband and former boss, she's been sleeping her way into political influence and a seat on the planning commission. No one quite believes it when she's found dead, an apparent suicide, but the note in her handwriting implies that she's been taking kickbacks from developers and everyone can believe that!
Deborah is also bothered over the death of the editor to the local paper. He was a victim of a hit-and-run accident months ago, and the police were unable to trace the car. Since then, the local paper has lost its investigative and muckraking edge. Deborah's also worried by her father's strange behavior. Where did he get the jewelry he was showing in the pawn shop?
The one weakness in this book is that we get less of Deborah's first-person narrative. This is because Maron is being fair to the reader, and telling us what Deborah doesn't know. Now what Deborah doesn't find out won't hurt her, but it makes the reader laugh out loud.
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