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High Country Fall
(Deborah Knott Series #10)
by Margaret Maron
The leaves of autumn are in full
splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure
(after 2002's Slow Dollar). Asked to fill in for a vacationing judge
up in the Blue Ridge high country, Deborah jumps at the chance to put some
space between her and Colleton County detective Dwight Bryant, whose
engagement ring has suddenly and almost inexplicably appeared on her finger.
But Knott quickly finds that the serene appearance of Cedar Gap belies the
troubles brewing beneath its surface.
One man is dead before Deborah even arrives, and his accused killer, Daniel
Freeman, is a friend of Deborah's nieces, who are sharing their parents'
mountainside condo with Her Judgeship. Yet before heads or tails can be made
of the current situation, Knott is present when an evening of pickin' and
grinnin' ends with the disappearance of one of a newly formed trio of real
estate developers. And her ride home with the stunningly handsome "Lucius
the Luscious" Burke, the local DA, may just put an end to her quandary about
getting hitched to Dwight.
Her entire stay in Cedar Gap is fraught with dangers, romantic and
otherwise, as Deborah finds herself pursued to the brink of death itself.
The roadways aren't the only thing with hairpin turns in this gripping
puzzler.
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