Bootleggers Daughter, Margaret Maron
Bootleggers Daughter, Margaret Maron
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Bootlegger's Daughter

Author: Margaret Maron

Narrator: C.J. Critt

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/01/2004

Synopsis

With a steamy Southern plot and a sassy new heroine, this Edgar Award winning novel debuts an exceptional new series. Attorney Deborah Knott is North Carolina's answer to V.I. Warshawski, a legal sleuth with a knack for sniffing out the most baffling crimes. Deborah has just done the unthinkable-entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy reeling in voters and giving campaign speeches. There couldn't be a worse time for Gayle Whitehead to beg Deborah to investigate the 18-year-old, unsolved murder of Gayle's mother, Janie. Gayle wants the busy attorney to poke around for any new clues the police may have missed all these years. Unlikely, thinks Deborah; until she discovers that not all the details of Janie's case made it out of confidential police files. Filled with the patter of Southern voices and populated with a cast of colorful characters, Bootlegger's Daughter expertly unwinds a funny, cunningly-crafted tale of mystery and deceit in North Carolina's backwoods.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary Ronan

When Bootlegger's Daughter was published in 1992 it won Dilys, Macavity, Anthony, and Edgar awards. That's an impressive record, so I borrowed the book from the library. I loved it, partly because it takes place in the area of North Carolina where I lived for some years and the author, who lives the......more

Goodreads review by Shaun

This was quite good for what it is. I enjoy mysteries, but they're not my absolute favorite relatively speaking (not their fault of course, but there are just so many books and so little time). Still, this was quite satisfying, and I can see why it swept the Mystery awards the year it came out. The p......more

Goodreads review by Carmen

A good mystery book. The first in the Deborah Knott series. A good look at the South. I like the main character. She is realistic and not too sexy. She is intelligent. The only problem I had with the book is that there are about a billion characters and it's really hard to keep them all straight. Su......more

Goodreads review by Rob

Above-average writing and effective use of late 20th-century mystery tropes make this Edgar Award Best-Novel winner enjoyable to read and to armchair solve along the way. In “Bootlegger’s Daughter”, Margaret Maron introduces sharp-tongued but compassionate lawyer-cum- detective Deborah Knott and give......more

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