Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
by Margaret Maron
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Author: Margaret MaronEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-08-01
ISBN: 0446612979
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Slow Dollar, by Margaret Maron
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm so excited to discover an author that I have never read before. I couldn't put down Margaret Maron's mystery novel, Slow Dollar. I loved the way she introduced me to the Carnival Slang with her glossary in the back of the book. Slow Dollar is an intriguing plot with a murder taken place in a Traveling Carnival. Her protagonist Judge Deborah Knott a quick witted North Carolina Judge, who visits a ragtag carnival and discovers a murder most foul. Judge Deborah attends opening night at the annual Harvest Festival as a Judge in a yam contest. The night before the contest she strolls through the midway and encounters her past with the sights and smells of the Carnival. Half the Colleton County has come out to ride the Tilt-O-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at a plate pitch. A Cacophony of music, clacking machines, and hucksters greet
her. The air is sweetly redolent of hot grease, fried dough, grilled meats and spun sugar...one whiff is all it takes to send Judge Deborah Knott straight back to her childhood, holding her mother's hand, riding on the shoulders of one of her eleven brothers, or clinging to her daddy's pants leg, bedazzled by the bright and colorful chasing lights.
With a murder on the midway Deborah discovers more than a body. Deborah's discovery of her family connection to the murder victim has unleashed dark secrets of her large family, that without meaning to Deborah brings to light in her quest to solve this murder as family loyalties war with judicial responsibilities. I love her new love interest in Dwight. I actually know a North Carolina couple who started their engagement in exactly the same way as Deborah and Dwight have done. Maybe North Carolina knows something the rest of us could emulate. A marriage not of hot passion but of long term respect and enduring love that goes from a small spark to a roaring inferno of emotion and love. I can't wait to read all of the Margaret Moran books I can find this summer. Reviewed by Virginia Degner, author of Without Consent, an Eloquent Book due to be released in the fall of 2010.
Summary of Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries)
A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends with a brutal death ... and Judge Deborah Knott will discover more than a body. For beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface swirl dark secrets that Deborah has kept hidden for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with the demands of the law, she must struggle to win a carny's trust-before the killer pins a bull's-eye on yet another victim.You can almost smell the cotton candy and hear the barkers inviting you to try your skill at a game of chance in this lively new mystery starring Colleton County, North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott. Knott's stunned to discover that Brazos Hartley, murdered on the midway at the Harvest Festival carnival, was a member of her family; his mother, Tally Ames, is Deborah's first cousin, born of a shotgun marriage and abandoned as a child by her father, Deborah's brother. Naturally, when there's a second carnival murder, Deborah can't help getting involved in the investigation, even if it means uncovering secrets some of her relatives would just as soon keep confidential. The huge Knott clan, with Deborah at its center, gives Maron a wealth of material (the judge herself is one of 12 siblings!), which she makes the most of with wonderfully drawn characters and a beautifully evoked setting. The next best thing to a summer night at a country carnival, Slow Dollar is a standout in a series that just keeps getting better. --Jane Adams
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