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Margaret Maron

(1938 - 2021)

Born and raised in central North Carolina, Margaret Maron lived in Italy before returning to the USA. She was a past president of Sisters in Crime and of the American Crime writers' league, and was a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America.

Genres: Mystery, Romance

Series

Sigrid Harald
   1. One Coffee with (1981)
   2. Death of A Butterfly (1984)
   3. Death in Blue Folders (1985)
   4. The Right Jack (1987)
   5. Baby Doll Games (1988)
   6. Corpus Christmas (1989)
   7. Past Imperfect (1991)
   8. Fugitive Colors (1995)
   9. Take Out (2017)

Judge Deborah Knott
   0.5. Deborah's Judgment (2012)
   1. Bootlegger's Daughter (1992)
   2. Southern Discomfort (1993)
   3. Shooting At Loons (1994)
   4. Up Jumps the Devil (1996)
   5. Killer Market (1997)
   6. Home Fires (1998)
   7. Storm Track (2000)
   8. Uncommon Clay (2001)
   9. Slow Dollar (2002)
   10. High Country Fall (2004)
   11. Rituals of the Season (2005)
   11.5. Bewreathed (2012)
   12. Winter's Child (2006)
   13. Hard Row (2007)
   14. Death's Half Acre (2008)
   15. Sand Sharks (2009)
   16. Christmas Mourning (2010)
   17. Three-Day Town (2011)
   17.5. With This Ring (2012)
   18. The Buzzard Table (2012)
   19. Designated Daughters (2014)
   20. Long Upon the Land (2015)
   Tales From Colleton County (2020)

Novels

Bloody Kin (1985)
Last Lessons of Summer (2003)

Collections

   Shoveling Smoke (1997)
   Suitable for Hanging (2004)
   Postcards From the Mediterranean (2012)
   Five Christmas Gifts (2012)

Novellas and Short Stories

Growth Marks (2013)

Series contributed to

Malice Domestic
8. Malice Domestic 8 (1999)

Omnibus editions show

Margaret Maron recommends

Flamingo Road (2017)
(Fia McKee, book 1)
Sasscer Hill
"In her new thriller, Sasscer Hill ups the ante on her horses. Could she be the Dick Francis of her generation? Count me among those who would vote yes."

The Man On the Washing Machine (2015)
(Theo Bogart Mystery, book 1)
Susan Cox
"Sue Cox writes with deft assurance. An appealing cast of characters and an absorbing plot that kept me turning the pages."

Winter at the Door (2015)
(Lizzie Snow Mystery, book 1)
Sarah Graves
"Sarah Graves writes with grace and intelligence, and a love for her state shines through in this stylish debut of a new series set against Maine’s dark and foreboding forests. I’m hooked!"

Phony Tinsel (2013)
Robert S Levinson
"A delightfully improbable romp through 1938 Hollywood with all the usual Levinson wit and humor."

Cold Feet (2013)
(Stella Lavender Mystery, book 1)
Karen Pullen
"Pullen combines good suspense with such nice touches of humor that this strong debut promises to turn into a habit forming series."

These Dark Things (2011)
(Captain Natalia Monte, book 1)
Jan Merete Weiss
"When Jan Merete Weiss's Captain Natalia Monte investigates the murder of a beautiful young university student, she must thread an uneasy path between childhood loyalties, religious superstition, corrupt officials, growing piles of garbage, and warring factions of an entrenched Camorra. Weiss has done her homework, walked the pestilent streets, prowled the catacombs below the city, and created a thoroughly human woman who will do what she must to protect her part of a city that both enchants and infuriates her."

Crying Blood (2011)
(Alafair Tucker Mysteries, book 5)
Donis Casey
"Thoroughly engrossing..."

Swift Justice (2010)
(Charlie Swift , book 1)
Laura DiSilverio
"I thoroughly enjoyed meeting soft-boiled private eye, Charlotte Swift. With believable credentials (ex-Air Force, Office of Special Investigations), Charlie's tricky case is lightened by the Humvee-driving abandoned wife of Charlie's ex-partner, a heretofore 'spa-to Saks-to-dinner party' matron, who has decided she wants to be a PI. Swift Justice is a delightfully sure-footed mixture of light and dark, and it signals the debut of a solid series."

Click Here For Murder (2003)
(Turing Hopper, book 2)
Donna Andrews
"Rarely have I been charmed by a new series character as I am by Turing Hopper."

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty (2002)
(Scumble River, book 3)
Denise Swanson
"A delightful new series."

Open Season (2001)
(Joe Pickett, book 1)
C J Box
"CJ Box has hit the bull's eye his first time up. Riveting suspense mingle with flash of cynical, back-country humor..."

The Silly Season (1999)
(Anneke Haagen, book 5)
Susan Holtzer
"[Holtzer] lifts herself into the front ranks of present-day mystery writers."

Dead March (1998)
(Civil War, book 1)
Ann McMillan
"What an intriguing trio! I do hope they're enlisted for the duration."

Dead Man's Float (1998)
(Jersey Shore, book 1)
Beth Sherman
"Ghostwriter Anne Hardaway is a delightful mix of humor, pragmatism and vulnerability."

Whose Death is It, Anyway? (1997)
(Peaches Dann, book 4)
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
"Peaches Dann is one peach of a sleuth!"

Death in Little Tokyo (1996)
(Ken Tanaka, book 1)
Dale Furutani
"The premise for Death in Little Tokyo is that mystery enthusiast Ken Tanaka belongs to the L.A. Mystery Club and he's setting up a role-playing mystery for the group, in which he plays a hard-boiled P.I. When a beautiful woman hires him as a go-between, he immediately assumes someone is playing a joke. Unfortunately, the murder that follows is no joke. Good local color and interesting details about modern Japanese-American customs and rituals."

Fire and Fog (1996)
(Fremont Jones, book 2)
Dianne Day
"Fans of Elizabeth Peters or Anne Perry should love Dianne Day's new turn-of-the-century female sleuth."

The Death We Share (1995)
(Patricia Delaney, book 3)
Sharon Short
"Hercule Poirot, Private Inquiry Agent, used to boast of his 'leetle gray cells.' Patricia Delaney, Investigative Consultant, uses the electronic bytes in her 'little gray box' to solve her cases with equal efficiency and flair. But computers never replace compassion and it's a pleasure to watch Delaney at work."

Grizzly (1994)
(Lee Squires, book 2)
Christine Andreae
"Christine Andreae writes about Montana's wilderness with the grace and sensitivity of a poet. Grizzly blends mystery with ecology, then wrenches us with the dwindling of Earth's less-cuddly species-both ursine and human."

The Queen is Dead (1994)
(Jocelyn O'Roarke, book 5)
Jane Dentinger
"Reader's who have missed Ngaio Marsh's theatre mysteries can stop mourning."

More recommendations

Books containing stories by Margaret Maron

Deadly Anniversaries (2020)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

Murder Under the Oaks (2015)
Bouchercon 2015 Anthology
(Bouchercon Anthology)
edited by
Art Taylor

Manhattan Mayhem (2015)
(Mystery Writers of America Presents)
edited by
Mary Higgins Clark

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Awards

	1989 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Corpus Christmas
	1992 Agatha Award for Best Novel : Bootlegger's Daughter
	1993 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Southern Discomfort
	1993 Anthony Award for Best Novel : Bootlegger's Daughter
	1993 Dilys Award for Best Book (nominee) : Bootlegger's Daughter
	1993 Edgar Award for Best Novel : Bootlegger's Daughter
	1993 Macavity Award for Best Novel : Bootlegger's Daughter
	1996 Agatha Award for Best Novel : Up Jumps the Devil
	1998 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Home Fires
	1999 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Home Fires
	2000 Agatha Award for Best Novel : Storm Track
	2003 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Last Lessons of Summer
	2004 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : High Country Fall
	2005 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Rituals of the Season
	2005 Macavity Award for Best Novel (nominee) : High Country Fall
	2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Hard Row
	2011 Agatha Award for Best Novel : Three-Day Town
	2012 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Buzzard Table
	2014 Agatha Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Designated Daughters
	2014 Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (nominee) : Designated Daughters
	2015 Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel : Long Upon the Land
	2017 Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (nominee) : Take Out

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