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This mystery (Book 1 in Maron's Deborah Knott series) is set in a small town in North Carolina. Maron does an excellent job of portraying complex interactions among race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in a town where everyone knows everyone. The author also excels in bringing her readers into settings. One can feel the "drowsy humid stillness" that hangs over a creek bed and imagine the cries and odors of an infant found near her dead mother in an abandoned grist mill. As Maron writes "The cries come from a very young infant strapped in a molded plastic carrier. She's soaked in her own urine and stinks of putrid diapers..." After that infant turns 18, she decides to use trust fund money to find out who murdered her mother, and so begins a long but riveting tale.

The plot is complex and the story does not move quickly, but I found the book well worth reading.


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Bootlegger Daughter A Deborah Knott Mystery Margaret Maron 9780786223275 Books Reviews

This was the first novel in the Judge Deborah Knott series. After reading other novels, and also the short story collection, I went back to this one which establishes the main character's start as a judge. The novel reflects the changing attitudes in the south, and the changing economy. Positions on the bench had been reserved for WASP men. Deborah is fed up with the attitudes of some of the judges she encounters while working as an attorney in their courtrooms. A position is coming open where the encumbent is stepping down. She decides to file for office. Her strongest opponent turns out to be a black male candidate. So how will people decide when confronted with a black man and a white woman, neither of whom would have stood a chance in previous history?

Deborah has many things working against her. Besides being a woman in what had been a male dominated profession, her father was a notorious bootlegger, but one with connections. Her election campaign runs in parallel to her legal career as she becomes involved in a cold case. An 18 year old woman wants her to investigate the death of her mother, murdered when the young woman was an infant. The case had never been solved.

The murder case is disturbing. There are people who do not want it reopened. She is assisted by a childhood friend who is the chief deputy in the sheriff's office, especially after another murder occurs (see the latest novel "Hard Row" to see how that relationship develops). There are some surprising revelations and a surprise ending to the case.

About her desire to be a judge - well, there is more than one way to skin a cat. Her father knows where some bodies are buried, and he can play hardball when he wants to.
Margaret Maron's BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER won every award for mystery fiction and is the beginning of the Deborah Knott series, with one prequel BLOODY KIN. Set in a fictional place near Raleigh, NC the story explores family, politics, homosexuality, and a cold case of murder.
The pace is slow of a modern mystery, but the reader has time to explore some fascinating characters and setting. A very strong beginning for an experience writer who has returned home.
If you've read others in the series, come back to this one because it is Margaret Maron at her writing best. Though I'll admit to admiring her NY characters more than I do Deborah, just a matter of taste not quality.
Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS and SINS OF THE FATHERS.
Margaret Maron is a favorite author of mine and Bootlegger's Daughter is one of my all-time favorite books. I'm very pleased to see this in ebook and I pounced on it. I've been waiting for this to come out in ebook for a loooong time.

This is the first book in the Deborah Knott series. It's strongly character driven, with a gorgeously realized setting, an atmospheric sense of time and place, and interesting relationships between Deborah Knott and her family. The Mystery Writers of America gave Margaret Maron the 1992 Edgar for Best Novel for this and it really earned it.

I've found no typos or botched formating so this looks like a nice clean conversion to ebook. The book does open defaulted to small print but that's very easy to fix on the font menu.
I found "Southern Discomfort", the second in the series about Judge Deborah Knott at a garage sale. The back cover informed me that it was part of a series that began with "Bootlegger's Daughter" so, I ordered it. If at all possible, I like to read a series in order.

This book introduces us to Deborah and some of her large family. She has 10 older brothers, I believe. Deborah's a single, 30-ish attorney in North Carolina who decides she wants to be a judge. We get to see the machinations of a judicial election from the inside. We get a feel for legal investigation in the "New South". We meet some of the family and characters who inhabit Deborah's world--enough to whet our appetite for more.

Ms. Maron is such a good storyteller that I've just completed the fifth book in the series (Killer Market) even though I just started reading the series last week. Here in Texas in July, it's just too hot to do anything but relax with a cool drink and a good book.
This is the first Deborah Knott mystery by Margaret Maron. While I have read many in this series, I was determined to read the very first one. All I can say is that it was wonderful. Just a shame I didn't read it first!
The reason I bought and read this book (aside from the awards and good reviews) is that it focuses on a judge who uncovers a lot of secrets that some people would rather keep buried. The plot is expertly written in other reviews here. But what I found most interesting is the atmosphere of a Southern Gothic novel which is one of the most interesting of the sub-genre's of the classic mystery novel. The intertwining of the secrets and the complications the judge's dredging up of same intrigued me from the beginning to the end.

Buy, read, and review this book!

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This mystery (Book 1 in Maron's Deborah Knott series) is set in a small town in North Carolina. Maron does an excellent job of portraying complex interactions among race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in a town where everyone knows everyone. The author also excels in bringing her readers into settings. One can feel the "drowsy humid stillness" that hangs over a creek bed and imagine the cries and odors of an infant found near her dead mother in an abandoned grist mill. As Maron writes "The cries come from a very young infant strapped in a molded plastic carrier. She's soaked in her own urine and stinks of putrid diapers..." After that infant turns 18, she decides to use trust fund money to find out who murdered her mother, and so begins a long but riveting tale.

The plot is complex and the story does not move quickly, but I found the book well worth reading.