Deborah Knott (5 books in series)
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review 1: I used to keep up with a list of Mystery Authors that I liked. I haven't kept up with it for a while, but this was one of my favorites on the list. Margaret Maron writes interesting stories and I like her characters. The volume was laying around the house and I read (perhaps r...
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review 1: I tried to give this book a go. I wanted to get into a new series. I knew I was in trouble when I started the book and there was a family tree with about a bazillion people listed. Books in general should have limited characters so you can keep them straight. This book just k...
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review 1: This book takes Deborah and her husband to NYC for their honeymoon. I liked hearing about NY and their activities there, but the 'mystery' aspect kind of sucked. Half of the book was told from Sigrid's perspective, a cop in NYC. This left me wondering why. Is she going to be ...
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review 1: I find Maron's Knott mysteries somewhat hit or miss, depending on the mystery (I almost always enjoy the complicated family dynamics) but this one was definitely a keeper. In addition the present time murder, Deborah and Dwight end up investigating the possible murder of her fath...
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review 1: I feel like Maron's books have become quite sloppy-- the main character here had almost nothing to do with the mystery, so the book was a messy split between what was going on in Deborah's life and two murders being worked on by her husband and her visiting cousin. As a result, ...