Margaret Maron retrata magistralmente la vida en el sur de Estados Unidos a través de narrativas cautivadoras. Sus obras profundizan en las complejidades de las relaciones humanas y los problemas sociales con un ojo agudo para el detalle y la profundidad psicológica. A través de sus novelas y cuentos, ofrece una perspectiva única sobre los matices culturales e históricos de su región natal. Su estilo, a menudo descrito como incisivo y atmosférico, deja una impresión duradera en los lectores.
When Jake Honeycutt died in a hunting accident, his wife, Kate, hoped that moving to his family farm in Colleton County, North Carolina would help heal her grief and provide a home for their unborn child. In this close-knit Southern community, Kate will discover that she is still very much a Yankee outsider--and that Jake's death was no accident.
When a Greenwich Village dancer is brutally murdered in front of an audience of horrified children, Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD must sort through the backstage passions to discover who wanted Emmy Mion dead and why. Complicating her investigation are her housemate, who wrote the scenario for the death scene; a children's therapist with her own agenda; and a world-famous artist whose on-again/off-again attentions have left an emotionally Sigrid bewildered and insecure. Only by concentrating on the murder can she maintain her equilibrium.
Three-Day Town is the winner of the Agatha award for best novel. After a year of marriage, Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are off to New York City for a long-delayed honeymoon. January might not be the perfect time to take a bite of the Big Apple, but Dwight's sister-in-law has arranged for them to stay in her Upper West Side apartment for a week. Deborah had been asked to deliver a package to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the NYPD from Sigrid's Colleton County grandmother. But when the homicide detective comes to pick it up, the package is missing and the building's super is found murdered. Now despite their desire to enjoy a blissful winter getaway, Deborah and Dwight must team up with Lt. Harald to catch the killer before he strikes again.
Attorney Deborah Knott is running for district judge in good-old-boy-ruled Colleton County, N.D.
From contemporary crimes to historical whodunits, here are classic and charming mysteries in the grand tradition of the television show, Murder, She Wrote. Contributors include Anne Perry, Margaret Maron, Susan Dunlap, and 14 other top authors.The Cadaver waltzed at noon / Deborah Adams --Both feet / Teri Holbrook --The Stupid pet trick / Margaret Maron --A Lady should avoid murder / Ann Granger --The Ghost who died dancing / Margaret Lawrence --Daughter of compassion / Veronica Black --Murder, she did / Gillian Roberts --The Uncrowned King of Ireland; or, a most toad-spotted traitor / P.M. Carlson --Up the garden path / Joyce Christmas --The Miser of Michely Hall / Jeanne M. Dams --Tipping the scales / Leslie O'Kane --Ghost busted / Susan Rogers Cooper --Brodie and the regrettable incident of the French ambassador / Anne Perry --Beauty is only skin deep / Gallagher Gray --In memory of Jack / Elizabeth Daniels Squire --A Surfeit of deadlines / Susna Dunlap
Investigating the poisoning murder of Professor Ripley Quinn, NYPD detective Sigrid Harald considers the motives of eight possible suspects in the art department office, including a man who had been sleeping with Quinn's wife. Reprint.
1) Robert Crais: Hlídka - Bývalý policista a žoldák Joe Pike je vždy ve střehu a má "čich" na nebezpečné situace. Když tedy vidí, jak do jednoho malého občerstvení v Los Angeles vcházejí dva podezřele vyhlížející chlapíci, neváhá zakročit. To ještě netuší, s kým má tu čest ...2) Patrick Taylor: Medik z Dublinu - Doktor Fingal Flaherty O'Reilly vzpomíná na své začátky. Studia bral vážně, i když se neodříkal ani známého rčení "Život studentský, život veselý" - pivo, hospůdky, sport, kamarádi, lásky. Pro pacienty by se rozkrájel, a to už v době, kdy byl nezkušeným medikem. 3) Felix Francis: Hazard - Nick Foxton býval žokej tělem i duší. Pak ho tělo zradilo - zranění ho připravilo o dostihovou kariéru. Stal se finančním poradcem a dostihy má jen jako hobby. A právě na jednom z nejdůležitějších dostihů, na Velké národní v Aintree, mu někdo přímo před očima zabije kolegu. 4) Margaret Maronová: Třídenní město - Manželé z jižanského městečka, soudkyně a šerif, se vydávají na líbánky do zasněženého New Yorku. Odhodláni nenechat se odradit počasím se ubytují a těší se, jak si užijí velkoměsta. Jejich plány se zkalí, když ve vypůjčeném bytě najdou mrtvolu domovníka.
