Uncommon Clay
Deborah Knott Mysteries: Book #8
- By: Margaret Maron
- Narrated by: C.J. Critt
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Description
Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep-rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke. When she decrees that the divorcing Nordan couple split their valuable earthenware collection, the husband winds up dead--in his own kiln! Many people have motives and the clay wheel swirls with suspects. C.J. Critt's narration heightens the suspense in this family's story of long-time grudges, murder, unbearable pain, and loss. This exciting novel is as rich as the red clay pottery of North Carolina.
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Deborah Knott Mysteries Series

Bootlegger's Daughter
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
With a steamy Southern plot and a sassy new heroine, this Edgar Award winning novel debuts an exceptional new series. Attorney Deborah Knott is North Carolina's answer to V.I. Warshawski, a legal sleuth with a knack for sniffing out the most baffling crimes. Deborah has just done the unthinkable-entered the heated race for judge of old-boy-ruled... Read more »
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Southern Discomfort
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No
The governor of North Carolina has appointed Deborah to a judicial seat in the District Court Division. On her weekends, the fledgling judge has been helping an all-woman building crew complete a home for a needy single mother. Her attempts to gain positive P.R. go awry when her niece is found battered and half-naked in the partially completed... Read more »
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Shooting at Loons
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the pen of the Edgar Award-winning author of Bootlegger's Daughter and Southern Discomfort flows a tale of mystery, money, and murder on the Outer Banks. Populated with colorful, richly drawn characters, Margaret Maron's latest novel captures the flavor of life in rural North Carolina. Arriving in Carteret County to fill in for a sick... Read more »
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Up Jumps the Devil
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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Killer Market
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
The Deborah Knott mysteries have won a devoted following, as well as Edgar, Agatha, Anthony and Macavity awards. Readers across the country love Judge Knott's new southern woman's sensibilities and the intelligence she uses to unravel the snarled cases that come her way. Killer Market takes the quintessential steel magnolia to the hub of North... Read more »
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Home Fires
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Ever since Bootlegger's Daughter stormed the mystery awards in 1993, Margaret Maron's Deborah Knott novels have won a dedicated following. Readers love her wise and witty heroine, intriguing plots, and charming southern country settings. Home Fires offers all this and more, as it tackles one of the contemporary South's most burning issues. When... Read more »
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Storm Track
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Margaret Maron creates entertaining mysteries filled with warm southern charm, colorful down-home characters, and smoldering grudges. In Storm Track, swirling dark clouds of illicit affairs and brutal murder threaten Colleton County, North Carolina. No one worries much about the scantily clad woman found strangled in the... Read more »
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Uncommon Clay
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Maron, winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity Awards, has reached renowned success with the Deborah Knott Mystery series. Uncommon Clay delves into the intriguing world of the Nordans, a deep-rooted family of talented yet cursed North Carolina potters. Judge Knott is filling in for another judge who suffered a mild stroke.... Read more »
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Slow Dollar
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott, a lawyer, district judge, and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, someone commits... Read more »
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High Country Fall
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Publishers Weekly declares that the "leaves of autumn are in full splendor, and so is Maron's talent in her 10th Deborah Knott adventure." Judge Knott is finally ready to marry her long-time friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant and settle down-or is she? She jumps at a chance to fill in for a judge in the high country of North Carolina. But ugly... Read more »
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Rituals of the Season
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Margaret Maron shows the form that has won her the Edgar and Agatha Awards, among many others, in this riveting mystery. Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a week. But all plans are put on hold when an assistant district attorney is killed, and the clues compel Judge Knott to investigate... Read more »
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Winter's Child
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Edgar Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this smalltown saga starring Judge Deborah Knott and her new husband Dwight Bryant, chief deputy of Colleton County, NC. When local handyman J.D. Rouse is found dead in his pickup truck with a bullet in his head, the... Read more »
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Hard Row
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Margaret Maron has garnered Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and American Mystery awards for her captivating series set in rural North Carolina. When a local farmer-known for his severe treatment of migrant workers-turns up savagely murdered, Judge Deborah and her new Deputy Sheriff husband soon wade into a... Read more »
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Death's Half Acre
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Maron's Judge Deborah Knott mysteries set in rural North Carolina are cherished by discerning readers who value authentic characters and intriguing plots. As housing sprawl creeps across the land, farmers are feeling the pinch. County commissioners have been making lucrative land deals in secret, and now murder brings Deborah and... Read more »
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Sand Sharks
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Maron continues her best-selling Deborah Knott series with Sand Sharks-an "outstanding . neat mystery that [is] highly recommended" (Library Journal, starred review). Judge Deborah's hopes for relaxation at a seaside judicial conference are dashed when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a colleague. And when more judges turn up... Read more »
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Christmas Mourning
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Maron's best-selling Deborah Knott mystery series won instant acclaim upon its debut in 1993. In this 16th entry in the series, the judge is faced with a horrifying holiday murder case. After a beautiful young cheerleader is found dead in a car wreck, Judge Knott's husband Deputy Dwight Bryant discovers evidence that the death was... Read more »
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Three-Day Town
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff 's Deputy Dwight Bryant are on a train to New York, finally on a honeymoon after a year of marriage. January in New York might not be the perfect time to visit, but they'll take it. The trip is a Christmas present from Dwight's sister-in-law, who arranged for them to stay in an Upper West Side apartment for one... Read more »
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The Buzzard Table
By: Margaret Maron
Narrated by: C.J. Critt
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Margaret Maron's mysteries starring Judge Deborah Knott have built a loyal following since debuting with the Edgar Award-winning The Bootlegger's Daughter. The series' 18th entry finds Deborah and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Bryant, teaming up with Lt. Sigrid Herald to track down a killer on the loose in their small North Carolina town. But as... Read more »
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