Best Selling Books by Margaret Maron

Sigrid Harald, a police detective, investigates the murder of a dancer, whose death was witnessed by a crowd of children

Third installment in the multi-award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series by acclaimed author Margaret Maron.

The eighth in a series of anthologies of original stories celebrating cozy mysteries, including short stories from Nevada Barr, Amanda Cross, Mary Daheim, Jonathan Gash, Edward Hoch, Susan Holtzer, HRF Keating, Susan Kenney, Alanna Knight, Janet Laurence, Miriam Grace Monfredo, Abigail Padgett, Lynda Robinson, and Sister Carol Anne O''Marie.

Collected short stories by Margaret Maron, each featuring Judge Deborah Knott.

COMPASSION, CONNECTION, AND INSPIRATION... The path of a writing career can be rocky and twisty and full of dead ends. But it''s also well-traveled-and in Writes of Passage, fifty-nine mystery authors offer the secrets that helped them navigate their success. When you''re in need of an author''s roadmap, "pick up this book," as Hank Phillippi Ryan says in the introduction. "Open it to any page. The sisters of SinC have shared their personal journeys-and they have many tales to tell." These tales reveal the "Writes of Passage" every author encounters, and Sisters in Crime hopes these beautifully told experiences will guide you along your way. Praise for WRITES OF PASSAGE: "Every writer-beginner or bestseller-gets lost sometimes. Some days words don''t flow and the path is hidden. Writes of Passage is a magic-box of wise words for those cloudy days. Like a lunch-date with all your funniest, kindest friends, this book will remind you of the joy of writing, inspire you to stick at it and remind you that you''re not alone." - Catriona McPherson, Agatha, Macavity and Bruce-Winning Author of the Dandy Gilver Series and the Anthony-Nominated As She Left It "Writes of Passage is that centering book every author needs, whether multi-published or still striving, the one that captures our collective experience as writers with compassion, connection, and inspiration. Its insightful essays will surprise you and renew you every time you open it, for as long as your writer''s journey continues." - Laura DiSilverio, 2014 President, Sisters in Crime; Author of the Lefty-Nominated Swift Investigations Series, the Mall Cop Series, and The Reckoning Stones (2015) Books in the Sisters in Crime The Writing Life Collection: WRITES OF PASSAGE: Adventures on the Writer''s Journey BREAKING AND ENTERING: The Road to Success SHAMLESS PROMOTION FOR BRAZEN HUSSIES Part of the Henery Press Non-Fiction Collection, if you like one, you''ll probably like them all...

Book 9 in the Deborah Knott series

MWA Grand Master Margaret Maron, Edgar Award winner Tom Franklin, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ron Rash headline a new anthology of 21 tales spanning from traditional detective stories to comic capers to darkest noir and more-something for all tastes. Murder Under the Oaks is published in conjunction with Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, held in 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina-the City of Oaks. As with the convention itself, the anthology spreads a broad canopy across a wide range of crime writers from across the country and around the world-including both veteran writers and the brightest up-and-coming talents in the field. Celebrating Bouchercon''s first-ever meeting in the American South, several of the stories in Murder Under the Oaks also draw on the region''s history and culture-including the birth of a secret society at the University of Virginia, a mystery from Edgar Allan Poe''s childhood days, and a series of less-than-welcome visits by everyone''s favorite hometown sheriff. All participants contributed their efforts to support our charity-the Wake County Public Libraries-and by extension readers and writers everywhere. All profits go to the library. Edited by Art Taylor Including Stories By J.L. Abramo J.D. Allen Lori Armstrong Rob Brunet P.A. De Voe Sean Doolittle Tom Franklin Toni Goodyear Kristin Kisska Robert Lopresti Robert Mangeot Margaret Maron Kathleen Mix Britni Patterson Karen Pullen Ron Rash Karen E. Salyer Sarah Shaber Zoe Sharp B.K. Stevens Graham Wynd"

Contains twenty-two short mystery stories by Margaret Maron, including selections that feature her recurring characters, Judge Deborah Knott, and Lieutanant Sigrid Harald.

Hailed as ''one of the most seamless Southern writers since Margaret Mitchell'' by Publishers Weekly, Margaret Maron has won multiple awards and received immense acclaim for her hugely popular Deborah Knott series. Now Maron introduces us to a new heroine who returns to her North Carolina roots to unearth the darkest secrets of her past. In the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, has come to clean out the house of her murdered grandmother - and perhaps find some answers. Beneath her quiet, accommodating manner, a storm is brewing. For here in this gracious home, Amy''s own mother had committed suicide when her daughter was barely three years old. The tragedy put an end to her mother''s turbulent marriage to Amy''s father. But the secrets surrounding her mother''s death live on. Sorting through her grandmother''s things, Amy reflects on the parallels between her parents'' relationship and the growing suspicions she has about her own husband, who may love her legacy more than he loves her. summers, Amy meets relatives she never knew, and feels an unexpected emotional connection with the burly, knowing state investigator looking into her grandmother''s murder. Suddenly, she begins to connect the dots between her troubled life and the heritage that has shaped her. Yet the more she learns, the closer she comes to a murderous force who may be in her own family - one who will not hesitate to lie, deceive, or kill...

Le Sud profond, où machisme rime avec racisme : c''est là que Deborah, jeune avocate éprise de justice, fille d''un ancien trafiquant d''alcool, a l''ambition de devenir juge ! Elle est en pleine campagne électorale quand on vient lui demander d''enquêter sur un meurtre commis dix-huit ans plus tôt. Crime apparemment gratuit, resté impuni. Fidèle à ses principes, Deborah accepte de se pencher sur cette affaire " classée ". Mais en fouillant dans le passé, elle réveille de vieux démons, déterre quelques cadavres et...met le feu aux poudres !