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Title: Slow Dollar by Margaret Maron, C. J. Critt ISBN: 1402518218 Publisher: Recorded Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: clever regional mystery
Comment: Judge Deborah Knott of Colleton County, North Carolina first meets Tally Ames in the courtroom when the carnival owner presses charges against three local men who damaged one of her rides. The judge finds in favor of Tally and orders the men to make restitution. The next time the two women meet is at the harvest festival carnival where Deborah is taking in the sights with friends and family.
The evening ends abruptly when Tally's son is found murdered, his face stomped on and his mouth stuffed with quarters. As the police investigate the carny workers, the judge learns that Tally is her long lost niece, even though Deborah's brother refuses to acknowledge her as his own. When another carnival worker is killed, the carny people close ranks against outsiders but none of that fastened tight community ever dealt with the likes of an obstinate individual like the judge.
The latest installment in the Deborah Knott's here comes the judge amateur sleuth investigation mystery series is a well written novel starring a secondary cast that is colorfully eccentric. The judge agrees to marry a local man who has loved her secretly for a very long time and it will be interesting to see if she, in future books, chickens out before she gets to the altar. SLOW DOLLAR is as much a family saga as it is a clever regional mystery.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: A welcome return to greatness in the Knott series
Comment: I thought the last several books in the Deborah Knott series were pretty poor. Mechanical plots, dull characters, uninteresting and implausible mystery solutions. In one of them, I intuited the murdered from the beginning because s/he was given too much "air time" when s/he was introduced - a common giveaway for untalented mystery writers. I feared that Maron had run out of ideas and was just churning out books for the money.
Happily, "Slow Dollar" more than restores my faith. As is typical with Maron, the point is less the mystery than the characters. As others have indicated, the new characters in "Slow Dollar" are delightfully drawn and wonderfully real. They add more depth to the incredibly complex relationships within Deborah's family.
And I absolutely, positively LOVED the new relationship with Dwight. Yes, I consider myself to be on a first-name basis with these people; they are that real to me.
Thank you, Margaret Maron, from this grateful reader. You're back on track.
Rating: 5
Summary: Behind-the-scenes carnival life
Comment: Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott Series is a delight and this book certainly does not disappoint. In this latest installment, Judge Knott presides at a case where four young men have vandalized a game owned by Tallahassee Ames, who is part owner of a carnival which is playing in town. Very shortly thereafter,Tallahassee's son is killed while Deborah is at the carnival. As she does some investigating, Deborah discovers that she is related to Tally and to her son, Braz. She pursues the investigation while trying to develop a relationship with Tally, a sometimes tricky balancing act. Deborah's large extended family, consisting of 11 older brothers and their families, provides background and several interesting characters for this book. Braz and his step-father had bought up the contents of several storage areas which had been auctioned off, so there were several angry people trying to get their property back who had a motive for killing Braz. The book contains a lot of information about living in and running a carnival, and even contains a glossary of carnival terms. It is nicely paced and even contains a little romance, which should combine to be very pleasing to both old and new Maron fans.
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Title: Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron ISBN: 0446610879 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Storm Track by Margaret Maron ISBN: 0446609390 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Southern Discomfort by Margaret Maron ISBN: 0446400807 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: June, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Dead Midnight by Marcia Muller ISBN: 0446612529 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Home Fires by Margaret Maron ISBN: 0446608106 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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