Maron, Margaret.
Summary: When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own North Carolina backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her best chicken casseroles. Dallas wasn't rich, but his land is suddenly worth a fortune. His trashy, chain-smoking third wife and grown stepchildren are all too aware of its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMaron, Margaret.
Summary: In North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott investigates the death of Tink Taylor, a local fisherman who was a voice of reason in the dispute between commercial fishermen and real estate developers. By the author of Bootlegger's Daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMaron, Margaret
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBala, Sharon
Summary: "For readers of Khaled Hosseini and Chris Cleave, The Boat People is an extraordinary novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage only to face the threat of deportation amid accusations of terrorism When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody civil war reaches Vancouver's shores, the young father thinks he and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bala 2018Persson Giolito, Malin
Summary: "QUICKSAND is an incisive courtroom thriller and a drama that raises questions about the nature of love, the disastrous side effects of guilt, and the function of justice. A mass shooting has taken place at a prep school in Stockholm's wealthiest suburb. Maja Norberg is eighteen years old and on trial for her involvement in the massacre where her boyfriend and best friend were killed. When the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2017