It's the story of an eighteen year old murder which involved a young wife/mother and her infant daughter. Our sleuth is lawyer Deborah Knott, a thirty something year old lawyer asked to look into the murder by the now eighteen year old daughter. Deborah stirs it up a little too much and more deaths result. The Deborah Knott character is pragmatic and engaging--I figured out who did it before the book did, but isn't that almost always the way?
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Bootlegger's Daughter
Last night I finished reading Bootlegger's Daughter, by Margaret Maron. Set in North Carolina in the early nineties, this mystery was a bit better than most. By this, I mean that I felt like not every character was fulfilling the mystery novel format, not every plot device was predestined to be used.
It's the story of an eighteen year old murder which involved a young wife/mother and her infant daughter. Our sleuth is lawyer Deborah Knott, a thirty something year old lawyer asked to look into the murder by the now eighteen year old daughter. Deborah stirs it up a little too much and more deaths result. The Deborah Knott character is pragmatic and engaging--I figured out who did it before the book did, but isn't that almost always the way?
It's the story of an eighteen year old murder which involved a young wife/mother and her infant daughter. Our sleuth is lawyer Deborah Knott, a thirty something year old lawyer asked to look into the murder by the now eighteen year old daughter. Deborah stirs it up a little too much and more deaths result. The Deborah Knott character is pragmatic and engaging--I figured out who did it before the book did, but isn't that almost always the way?
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i live in north carolina.
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