Long Upon the Land
Published on 29. March 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4555-4531-5 (ISBN)
Description
Multiple award winner of the most prestigious prizes for mystery fiction, Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott. No one in Judge Deborah Knott's family knows the meaning of the inscription on their late mother's cigarette lighter, which young Susan Stephenson acquired near the end of WWII. Who was "Mac" and why did someone named Leslie engrave "Just do it!" on its surface? Meanwhile, Kezzie Knott has discovered the body of an elderly woman who used to make whiskey for him back when he was running white lightning. What was she doing on his land and why are there tracks from a grandson's truck near the body? While her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigates, Deborah finds a name on a tombstone that could help her identify the lighter's original owner. For years Deborah has wondered how the daughter of a wealthy attorney could have married a widowed, semi-illiterate bootlegger and this time, she's determined to find the answer.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (mass)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 172 mm
Width: 105 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
145 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4555-4531-5 (9781455545315)
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Margaret Maron grew up in the country near Raleigh, North Carolina, but for many years lived in Brooklyn, New York. When she and her artist husband returned to the farm that had been in her family for a hundred years, she began a series based on her own background. The first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, became a Washington Post bestseller that swept the major mystery awards for its year -- winning the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for Best Novel -- and is among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
Later, her Deborah Knott novels Up Jumps the Devil, Storm Track, and Three-Day Town each also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Margaret is also the author of the Sigrid Harald series of detective novels. In 2008, Maron received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the highest civilian honor the state bestows on its authors. And in 2013, the Mystery Writers of America celebrated Maron's contributions to the mystery genre by naming her a Grand Master -- an honor first bestowed on Agatha Christie. To find out more about her, you can visit MargaretMaron.com.
Later, her Deborah Knott novels Up Jumps the Devil, Storm Track, and Three-Day Town each also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Margaret is also the author of the Sigrid Harald series of detective novels. In 2008, Maron received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the highest civilian honor the state bestows on its authors. And in 2013, the Mystery Writers of America celebrated Maron's contributions to the mystery genre by naming her a Grand Master -- an honor first bestowed on Agatha Christie. To find out more about her, you can visit MargaretMaron.com.