Storm Track: 7 (Deborah Knott Mystery)

A witty and affectionate view of the new South--and especially the new Souths new woman writes the San Diego Union-Tribune of Margaret Marons award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series. From its first book Bootleggers Daughter which swept every major mystery writing award this series has been extraordinary--winning a greater audience and brilliantly evolving in content and style. Now in the seventh book in the series sexual tension illicit love and brutal murder entangle and explode in Deborah Knotts life . . .Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton County North Carolina. When they do people remember them as events that mark an entire generation. Domestic storms on the other hand hit with regularity so when the scantily clad body of a promiscuous wife is found in a motel the murder resounds like a thunderclap through the community.With her handsome cousin a suspect in the murder Judge Deborah Knott soon uncovers a web of secret and illicit affairs that stretches from the African-American church community to Deborahs own family. Then the killer strikes again even as a real-life killer storm rages up the Carolina coast.Mesmerizing psychologically complex and cleverly plotted STORM TRACK is great powerful fiction . . . and Margaret Maron is at her best.