Deborah Knott mysteries

Deborah Knott, an attorney in Colleton County, North Carolina, is asked to investigate an unsolved murder that happened eighteen years ago.

Discovering the body of a murdered fisherman has put Judge Deborah Knott in the middle of a fight between the locals and the land developers.

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

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...

North Carolina judge Deborah Knott stumbles upon old family secrets when the carnival and murder come to Colleton County.

North Carolina judge Deborah Knott's anxiety over her upcoming Christmas wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant is compounded by the murder of a colleague, her involvement in helping students research the innocence of a death-row prisoner, ongoing renovations to her house, and worries over how to connect with her soon-to-be stepson.

"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.

Judge Deborah Knott, attending a summer conference for the North Carolina district court judges at Wrightsville Beach, is just starting to relax from the stresses of work, a new marriage, and stepmotherhood when one of her less-admired colleagues is found murdered, and she cannot keep from investigating when it becomes obvious that the killer may have another target.

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 and the doorman has been murdered.

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 cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...