Rituals of the season : Deborah Knott mysteries bk. 11

- High Country Fall, Margaret Maron's most recent installment in the Deborah Knott series, was published in Mysterious Press hardcover in 8/04, with a first printing of 40,000 copies.- Margaret Maron swept the top mystery awards with her first Deborah Knott hardcover, Bootlegger's Daughter (Mysterious Press, 1992), receiving the Edgar1 Award for Best Mystery Novel, the Agatha Award, the Macavity, and the Anthony. She also won a 1992 Agatha Award for the short story that introduced the character of Deborah Knott, and later, she received the Agatha Award for Best Novel for Up Jumps the Devil (Mysterious Press, 1996). Maron was nominated for an Agatha Award for Home Fires (Mysterious Press, 1998), and most recently, Storm Track (Mysterious Press, 2000) won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Last Lessons of Summer (Mysterious Press, 2003), was also nominated for an Agatha Award.- Last Lessons of Summer, Slow Dollar, and Uncommon Clay were all selected as Mystery Guild Main Selections. The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio While Maron always makes a point of involving her in the rituals and customs of her home state, after 10 novels it's a pleasure to see this warmhearted woman finally participating in the rites of matrimony. "Judge Deborah Knott has a severe case of anxiety in the final days before her late December nuptials to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant. Her calendar is booked solid with receptions and parties, last-minute details, and family obligations. There is absolutely no way she can fit a homicide case into her schedule. Nevertheless, 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 ethics and confidentiality suddenly face her...right on the next pillow. Renovations to the house where the newlyweds will live are shockingly behind schedule-and, as the clock ticks down, Deborah has serious doubts her rowdy brothers will finish the new construction in time. Meanwhile, her sisters-in-law are giving her etiquette advice, her maid of honor is so pregnant she may deliver during the ceremony, and somehow, Deborah must find a way to connect with her wary young stepson-to-be. And as if things are not already hectic enough, two law students turn up and demand that she help them stop the execution of an innocent woman-one who is scheduled to die in less than a month. Now Deborah is in danger of losing sight of what really matters-the big, brown-eyed man who's about to say "I do." But just when she thinks she's finally got order in the court and in her life, fate has one more pulse-pounding surprise in store..."--BOOK JACKET "Judge Deborah Knott, only days away from her wedding to Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryant, investigates another murder"--Provided by the publisher. While planning her wedding, Judge Deborah Knott investigates the murder of an assistant DA with connections to an old case