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Up Jumps the Devil

By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
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 Best-selling author Margaret Maron's colorful Deborah Knott mysteries crackle with sassy Southern dialogue and rural wisdom. In Up Jumps the Devil, fast-moving progress is threatening to forever destroy the leisurely, heart-warming pace of Colleton County, North Carolina. District Court Judge Deborah Knott sees trouble brewing when plans for a new interstate highway start pushing up property values. As her own relatives battle lifelong neighbors over selling farmland or holding out, Deborah finds herself calming the combatants with down-home wit, and sometimes, judicial decisions. But when the squabbles escalate to murder, Deborah is forced to search for the killer uncomfortably close to home.

Margaret Maron skillfully draws on her North Carolina roots to pen her well-crafted, suspenseful mysteries. Her creative talents have earned her the coveted Edgar, Agatha, Macavity, and Anthony Awards. Salt-of-the-earth characters, vivid with lilting, down-home humor and unwavering opinions, step from the pages when narrator C.J. Critt breathes life into them.

Don't miss the other books in the Deborah Knott mystery series.©1996 Margaret Maron Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Thriller Crime Law Exciting Heartfelt Witty

Critic Reviews

"A winning tale of closeted skeletons and family feuds." (Library Journal)

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