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Up Jumps the Devil

de Margaret Maron

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Sèrie: Deborah Knott (4)

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Fiction. Mystery. 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.… (més)

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I genuinely love Margaret Maron's works. Deborah Knott is perhaps her best character. She is so typical of the Southern women I have known. And Maron absolutely gets the culture of North Carolina.

This book has the subtext of exploring the "gentrification" of rural North Carolina. What were once fields are now upscale housing developments. Mom-and-Pop stores get squeezed out in favor of the known quantity of big-box stores. Are we losing the joy of rural life to the lure of lots of money in hand?

Of course, to really look at this, there must be a murder. And, of course, Deborah must investigate. While she does so, we learn more about her past, including her large family. The author did play fair with the reader in the reveal.

This cozy mystery series should appeal to anyone who enjoys mysteries and to those who enjoy North Carolina fiction. Highly recommended! (

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Jean_Sexton | Apr 7, 2023 |

This was not one of my favorite Deborah Knott books. It is all about land, the selling and development of the land. The book does give a lot of information about all of Deborah's many brothers, a few sisters-in-law and some of her nieces and nephews. (

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dara85 | May 8, 2020 |

Back for her fourth leisurely outing, North Carolina judge Deborah Knott (Shooting at Loons, 1994, etc.) has personal connections to just about every suspect in the murder of old Jap Stancil--a failed farmer who's been eking out a living working on cars and growing ornamental corn for the Thanksgiving season. Suspect #1 is Jap's roguish, layabout nephew Allen, whom Deborah idiotically eloped with when she was an unstable 18-year-old college freshman (the marriage was almost instantly annulled). Worse yet, Deborah's land-proud father and some of her 11 brothers- -all of whom own property adjacent to the Stancil farm--had strong feelings (ranging from outrage to greed) about Jap's plan to sell out to a local developer. And Deborah also has a soft spot for Billy Wall, a hard-working kid with a very pregnant wife, who just might have killed Jap for his corn money. Deborah (

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jepeters333 | Jun 17, 2018 |

Series stays interesting, as we learn more about Deborah's family and early life. Conflicts about land are generated by strong investment interest from developers and, murder results. A face to face confrontation puts her in danger before the case is resolved. Another well told story from North Carolina. (

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jamespurcell | Sep 15, 2016 |

Synopsis: It's near Thanksgiving and most of the family is in the area. A land developer is trying to buy up all of the farms in the area to turn them into a housing development. One of the brothers needs money badly enough that he sells his property. One of the small farm owners is killed, as is the land developer.
Review: This book is all over the place. Parts are good and parts are completely irrelevant. The grand reveal is pitiful. (

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DrLed | Jul 12, 2016 |

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Nom de l'autor	Càrrec	Tipus d'autor	Obra?	Estat
Margaret Maron	—	autor primari	totes les edicions	calculat
Craig,Dan	Autor de la coberta	autor secundari	algunes edicions	confirmat

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Agatha Award (Nominat – Novel·la – 1996)

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Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults (1996)

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Deborah Knott

Dwight Bryant

Allen Stancil (Deborah's ex-husband)

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For Sara Ann Freed,
now my nurturing editor,
but years ago the friend who first said,
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North Carolina?'

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Most of my brothers-
Most of my respectable brothers, that is-
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Fiction. Mystery. 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.

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