Book 1

Bootlegger's Daughter

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 May 1992
Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.

Book 2

Southern Discomfort

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 June 1994

Book 3

Shooting at Loons

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 June 1994
Margaret Maron has garnered both the praise of critics and the raves of satisfied readers for her award-winning Deborah Knott series. The Indianapolis News notes that a Deborah Knott book is "more than just a mystery; it is a portrait of a place." The Houston Chronicle compares Maron's rich...Read more

Book 4

Up Jumps the Devil

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 September 1996
Murder usually begins at home, and Colleton County, North Carolina, proves no exception. When truck driver and childhood neighbor Dallas Stancil is shot and killed in his own backyard, Judge Deborah Knott figures she owes his memory at least the respectful ritual of taking his widow one of her...Read more

Book 5

Killer Market

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 August 1997
A chilling misadventure begins when Deborah, hunting high and lowboy for lodging, is befriended by an eccentric old lady calling herself Mrs. Jernigan. Deborah follows the chiffon-clad Good Samaritan through rooms of French provincial and high-tech modern when the lady suddenly vanishes, leaving a sexy hunk of manhood dead...Read more

Book 6

Home Fires

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 December 1998
At a stop along her campaign trail, Judge Deborah Knott attends a community picnic at the Mr. Olive Church. When the historic building is destroyed by a fire shortly after the outing -- and the charred skeleton of a young man is found among the ashes -- Knott begins...Read more

Book 7

Storm Track

by Margaret Maron

Published 18 April 2000
Lynn Bullock's used body is found in a local motel room. Her lawyer husband would never have imagined such an end for his wife, yet the people of Colleton County have always known her as a tramp. Judge Deborah Knott is drawn into the investigation when her good-looking cousin,...Read more

Book 8

Uncommon Clay

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 May 2001
The dark earth in the piedmont of North Carolina's Randolph Country is heavy with bright clay. And it is of the same rich soil that attracts many of the South's most skilled potters. Also drawn to this region is the visiting judge Deborah Knott. She faces the most exasperating...Read more

Book 9

Slow Dollar

by Margaret Maron

Published 20 August 2002
Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton Country to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of live goldfish against a cacophony of music, clacking machines...Read more

Book 13

Hard Row

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2007
"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it become clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are summering just below the surface inColleton County." - Back cover

Book 17

Three-Day Town

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2011
While in New York, Judge Deborah Knott has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment with her husband to pick up the box, but when they reach the apartment, they discover that the box is missing...Read more

Book 18

The Buzzard Table

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2012

Book 19

Designated Daughters

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2014
When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they...Read more

Book 20

Long Upon the Land

by Margaret Maron

Published 11 August 2015
"On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man...Read more

High Country Fall

by Margaret Maron

Published 24 August 2004
Taking an out-of-town assignment to put distance between herself and her hyper-reactive family, recently engaged judge Deborah Knott finds her peaceful break disrupted by a local murder that she becomes determined to solve.

Rituals of the Season

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2005
Judge Deborah Knott has a severe case of anxiety in the final days before her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant. However, when a friend and colleague is shot on the icy drive home and Dwight becomes the lead detective on the case, Deborah is immediately involved. Issues of...Read more

Christmas Mourning

by Margaret Maron

Published 5 November 2010
"It's Christmas in rural North Carolina's Colleton County. Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant and his wife, Judge Deborah Knott, have propped his traditional pine tree in the living room. Christmas lights have been hung. Aunt Zell's famous fruitcake has arrived. Deborah can't wait to celebrate with Dwight, her stepson Cal,...Read more

Death's Half Acre

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2008
Conflicts between family farmers and real estate developers in Colleton County lead to the murder of a controversial commissioner and pulls Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, into the fray.

Sand Sharks

by Margaret Maron

Published 1 January 2009