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1) Sand sharks
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Judge Deborah Knott, attending a summer conference for the North Carolina district court judges at Wrightsville Beach, is just starting to relax from the stresses of work, a new marriage, and stepmotherhood when one of her less-admired colleagues is found murdered, and she cannot keep from investigating when it becomes obvious that the killer may have another target.
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Judge Deborah Knott arrives in High Point, North Carolina to substitute for a vacationing colleague only to find herself without lodging due to a furniture convention, but she lands in much more serious trouble when she accepts an invitation to stay with an eccentric old lady who vanishes, leaving Deborah a suspect in a murder.
3) Dirty Blonde
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“A breathless thriller. . . . If a good roller-coaster is what you want, step up and have your ticket punched.”—People
A female judge finds her life and her career on the line when the defendant in a high-profile lawsuit is killed in this riveting and stylish novel of greed, murder and justice, from New York Times #1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline.
Attractive, sexy, tough-minded
...4) Slow dollar
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Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott, a lawyer, district judge, and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, someone commits murder. As Deborah investigates, she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous...
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Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep-rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke. When she decrees that the divorcing Nordan couple split their valuable earthenware collection, the husband...
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North Carolina judge Deborah Knott's anxiety over her upcoming Christmas wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant is compounded by the murder of a colleague, her involvement in helping students research the innocence of a death-row prisoner, ongoing renovations to her house, and worries over how to connect with her soon-to-be stepson.
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The latest masterwork from one of the leading writers of suspense . . . New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell returns with a chilling tale of the law gone wrong and a kidnapping that threatens more than one life. The Wrong Hostage Orphaned at thirteen, Grace Silva clawed her way out of poverty and violence to become one of the most respected judges on the federal bench. Grace believes in the rule of law -- lives it, breathes it. She has...
11) Winter's child
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Edgar Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this small town saga starring Judge Deborah Knott and her new husband Dwight Bryant, chief deputy of Colleton County, NC. When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the mayhem-and the body count-grows. But Dwight launches his own investigation after his son and ex-wife turn...
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Publishers Weekly declares that the "leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure." Judge Knott is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down-or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge in the high country of North Carolina. But ugly murder haunts the beauty of the Smoky Mountains.
15) Hard row
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
16) Storm track
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Judge Deborah Knott, already on edge as a hurricane approaches her Colleton County community, unwittingly becomes involved in a storm of domestic unrest, some of which leads to murder.
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When former neighbor Dallas Stancil is murdered, Judge Deborah Knott rushes to offer condolences to the grieving widow, not realizing that Cherry Lou, Dallas's third wife, set up the killing in order to cash in on a developer's offer of big money for her husband's backwoods land.
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2019]
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"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder returns with an explosive new thriller about a female judge and the one personal misstep that could lead to her--and her family's--undoing. It was nothing more than a one-night stand. Juliana Brody, a judge in the Superior Court of Massachusetts, is rumored to be in consideration for the federal circuit, maybe someday the highest court in the land. At a conference in a Chicago hotel, she meets a gentle,...
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