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    Rituals of the Season
    Rituals of the Season
    Rituals of the Season
    Audiobook9 hours

    Rituals of the Season

    Written by Margaret Maron

    Narrated by C.J. Critt

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author Margaret Maron shows the form that has won her the Edgar and Agatha Awards, among many others, in this riveting mystery. Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a week. But all plans are put on hold when an assistant district attorney is killed, and the clues compel Judge Knott to investigate an earlier double murder that may be connected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 29, 2008
    ISBN9781436172509
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    • 5/5
      Judge Deborah Knott (High Country Fall, 2004, etc.), who dated Mr. Wrongs for years while her daddy, 11 brothers and numerous sisters-in-law were convinced she’d never settle down, has opened her heart to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant. Their big day is only a week or two off when the murder of ADA Tracy Johnson sends their plans off-kilter. Although Deborah and Dwight have a pact never to discuss cases that might come before her on the bench, Deborah can’t say no to two college kids who beseech her to look into the Martha Hurst case. They believe that Hurst, due to be executed in a month for the murder of her son-in-law and ex-lover, is innocent. If DA Doug Woodall is correct in saying that his case was airtight, why was Tracy asking to see the old case files before she died? While Deborah and the college kids wrestle with long-ago witnesses, Dwight worries about the surprises in Tracy’s autopsy and his suddenly missing deputy Don Whitley. There’ll be another death, hints of an irregular pregnancy or two and more police corruption in Colleton County before the DA redresses a wrong, Tracy is avenged and Deborah and Dwight celebrate their nuptials.
    • 4/5
      Christmas and a wedding are the cultural niches of rural North Carolina featured in this folksy but good mystery series. Deborah, a judge, is getting married to Major, nee Dwight, a law officer in her jurisdiction; therein lies the potential for conflict. Plainly speaking, how can the Major keep Deborah from being involved in the crime solving part of the Judicial System? Boundaries are established giving The Judge even more tightropes to walk.Solving the crime; the death of an ADA and her infant causes some of the luster of local law enforcement to dull as does Judge Deb'rah's look back into a past "done deal" solution of a domestic murder. The races to the finish, getting married and exonerating the person on death row provide thewoof and warp for another fine entry in this good series.
    • 4/5
      I don't like spoilers, but this review will have some if you haven't read the preceding ten books in the Deborah Knott series. Just a bit of warning, followed by a sentence of stalling.Ironically while the last few books where the mystery took a back seat to the Deborah Knott relationships subplots here's the novel where Knott's supposed to get married (in the middle of the winter, really, people do that?) and yet the mystery takes up most of the book's time.An ADA gets murdered (As well as her child dying, which is a heart wrenching detail) and that sends both Major Dwight in his official capacity and Deborah in her capacity as the ADA's sorta friend trying to find out who would do such a horrendous thing. The motives vary, from a possible scorned lover, to a pissed off drug dealer, or someone trying to keep her from finding out if a woman on death row is really guilty or innocent.Again I think this is one of the best mysteries in the novels that Maron has written. It kept me guessing on motive as well as who the perpetrator was until near the very end. As well as having a great couple of subplots as usual. Awesome.
    • 4/5
      I continue to enjoy Margaret Maron's books, and this was another good one to listen to in the car. The North Carolina setting is so familiar, and I continue to enjoy the characters.
    • 5/5
      I just love the Deborah Knott books. I've been waiting for this one -- and anyone who follows the series knows why. This is the one where Deborah takes that big leap.

      The mystery was a lot of fun as well. Deborah gets tangled up in one of Dwight's investigations (again), only this time a good friend is the victim.

      Looking forward to the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      love Margaret Maron’s character Judge Deborah Knott. This adventure continues her romance with Maj Dwight Bryant – finally planning a wedding. Of course, this being a Margaret Maron book, there is also a murder to solve – this time a good friend of Deborah’s, and a review of a murder case where the accused murderer keeps claiming she is innocent, and two young law students set out (with Deborah’s help of course) to prove her innocence.I really enjoy this series and find they work especially well in the audio format.I get a lot of exercise in because I don’t want to stop in the middle of a chapter when I’m jogging away in the pool.I haven’t read all eleven of the series, but don’t feel like I’m missing too much by jumping ahead.
    • 5/5
      This book is a first for me. It is an ebook and the first full length ebook I have ever read. I thought since I don't like reading a book on the computer, that ebooks would also be a pain. I lose the line at the end and can't move to the next one smoothly. Oddly the smaller screen space of the ebook reader prevents that from happening. I have an Ipod Touch and it runs the Kindle reader on it with an app. I loved the reading experience, and have since downloaded other books.I was home sick, had finished all the Maron books I had and was desperate for a fix, and to find out about Deborah and Dwight.This book, number 11 starts with a shocking murder. One of their own is killed (Colleton County justice system) and the investigation points to an inside job.The main attraction for me and the need to read it right away was to see what happened with Dwight and Deborah and if the wedding went off. I was very happy with the developments on that front.Another wonderful episode of the friends and family of Deborah Knott.
    • 5/5
      11th in the Judge Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina.Not only reconciled but now eagerly anticipating her marriage to Dwight Bryant just before Christmas, Deborah is caught up not only in preparations for the wedding but for the season as well. But marring the festivities for everyone is the murder of a young, attractive assistant DA, Tracy Johnson, and the consequent death of her infant adopted daughter.Along with some fairly humorous and obviously nostalgic descriptions of preparing for a wedding and almost everything that can happen, Maron has written far more of a police procedural book than she has previously, something hard to do when her protagonist is not a police officer. But with this books, Maron brings Officer Mayleen Richards more to the fore, and through Mayleen and other officers in the Colleton Conty Sheriff’s Department, Maron can lean more towards the procedural side. However, it’s still no New York or Los Angeles type of case, and she stays utterly true to her regional slant on characters, dialogue, and behavior. The details of the preparations for the wedding are well done in that nothing is cloying; again, a major strength of the series is the very size of Deborah’s family and the fact that Maron has given more or less distinct voices to Deborah’s brothers and especially their wives.The plot is good and the intertwining of murder investigation and wedding preparations works because Maron is a skillful writer who has this material thoroughly in hand.Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      In the midst of final preparations for their Christmas wedding, Judge Deborah Knott and deputy Dwight Bryant are saddened by the murder of one of their colleagues, assistant district attorney Tracy Johnson, and her infant daughter Mei. Dwight and his team of investigators must figure out if the murder is related to one of the cases Ms. Johnson was prosecuting, or if the motive was more personal. Shortly before her death, Tracy had been looking at trial transcripts of a death row convict scheduled for execution in January. Did she suspect that the woman might be innocent? Deborah can't resist looking into the matter herself.The wedding, rather than the murder investigation, is the central focus of the book. Regular series readers will share the happiness of Deborah, Dwight, and the large Knott clan. If you're new to the series, though, this wouldn't be the best place to pick it up. You need to first read earlier books in the series. Start at least as far back as Slow Dollar.
    • 5/5
      Judge Deborah Knott (Bootlegger's Daughter) and fiancé Dwight solve one murder/fake suicide and a long-cold case to free a wrongly convicted death-row inmate while coping with Christmas wedding festivities.