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1) The cove
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Jess Hall, growing up deep in the heart of an unassuming mountain town that believes in protecting its own, is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he isn't supposed to, which has catastrophic repercussions.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Five women from Hope Springs Community Church in North Carolina form a committee to create a church cookbook. Folded into their stories are delectable Southern recipes like "Fran's chicken pie". "Earnestine's corn relish" and, of course, a "Real friendship cake."
9) Hard row
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the North Carolina countryside"--Provided by publisher.
10) Down river
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes.
11) Uncommon clay
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
After a routine divorce case bubbles up into murder, Judge Deborah Knott is obliged to track a deadly family feud to its core.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott investigates the death of Tink Taylor, a local fisherman who was a voice of reason in the dispute between commercial fishermen and real estate developers. By the author of Bootlegger's Daughter.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©1996.
Language
English
Description
Judge Deborah Knott looks into the murder of Dallas Stancil and finds that several people could have something to do with his death now that his land is worth a fortune.
14) Killer market
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Mysterious Press/Warner Books
Pub. Date
©1997.
Language
English
Description
In North Carolina, Judge Deborah Knott's handbag is stolen with her penicillin tablets inside. When the bag is found by the side of a man who died from those tablets, the judge turns sleuth. The victim, a salesman attending a big furniture show, was a boyfriend in her youth.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious ornithologist staying at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home and doing research on Southern vultures seems familiar to Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, especially after a murderer strikes.
16) The last child
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Maron is back with a new mystery featuring her critically acclaimed sleuth Judge Deborah Knott"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©2004.
Language
English
Description
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.
19) Cold mountain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict...
20) Storm track
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
Violent storms often hit Colleton County, North Carolina, but when a local attorney's promiscuous wife is killed, the murder blows the lids off more homes than last year's hurricane. As the victim's numerous lovers--including a handsome cousin of Judge Deborah Knott--scurry for cover stories, the judge begins her own investigation. What she finds is a tangled web of extramarital affairs and secrets linking half the county ... while a massive hurricane...
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