Bootlegger's Daughter

By Margaret Maron,

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Attorney Deborah Knott is running for district judge in good-old-boy-ruled Colleton County, N.C.

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1 author picked Bootlegger's Daughter as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love this book for many reasons—its rural Southern setting, its lawyer/judge protagonist Deborah Knott, its twisty mystery. But I was particularly intrigued when author Margaret Maron told me that the spark for the book was a real unsolved murder near her North Carolina home. I wrote about the real case when it was finally solved in Triangle True Crime, but Margaret’s version of what might have happened is so much more interesting.

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