Competent mystery with a strong shot of research.

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	• Uncommon Clay Margaret Maron Grand Central Publishing, 2002 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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It's ok, but I felt cheated

This book was ok. That's all that can really be said about it. If you have been reading the series and you are really into it, you may have a different feeling. This is the first book of the series that I have read. I do not think it was bad, but I felt cheated. The print is pretty big -- this book should be half its size. I get the feeling that the author ran out of ideas for the series and based a book on research without taking the plot twists as seriously. I really felt cheated by the ending. (I leave you with that to not ruin it.)

Best Yet

Except for Storm Track, I've read all of the Deborah Knott series. To me, Uncommon Clay is the best yet! The research and information that Margaret supplied about the NC pottery industry was a bonus to the solid mystery she always provides. I'll be going to Seagrove soon. Too bad I won't be able to find her fictious potteries - I'd love to meet these characters!

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An Uncommonly Good Mystery

This was an enjoyable mystery set in rural North Carolina. The main story line in the book revolves around the Norden family and thier pottery. Judge Deborah Knott is sent to Seagrove, North Carolina, to preside over the final property division to finalize the divorce between local potters James Lucas Norden and his soon-to-be-exwife Sandra Kay Norden. But when James Lucas is found gruesomely murdered at the Norden family pottery, Judge Knott finds herself embroiled in the Norden family's drama. This interesting story is full of surprising plot twists.

In addition to the well-told mystery, the author weaves in a lot of information about the craft of making pottery.

This is the eighth book featuring Judge Deborah Knott. It's the first one that I have read and I definitely plan on going back to the beginning of this series and enjoying them all!

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She really tried to mind her own business

The Nordan family has problems. The death of three of them in rather gruesome ways is the least of it. The head of the family Amos Nordan is a cave man in his thinking, about woman, and the government interfering with his business, and its causing the rest of the family nothing but trouble. Lucky for the readers there Judge Deborah Knott, with her easy and funny look on life, and of course the need to stick her noise into places it shouldn't be, but than what kind of Judge would she be if she didn't do thank. In the end all the string will be neatly tied, and of course the killer will get what's coming to um.

Margaret Maron really writes a great mystery. The book is fun to read, and the killer isn't all that obvious. Her characters truly come to life within these pages. This is the first of her books I have read, but it will not be last. If you are fan of southern mysteries, with real woman characters, you'll love this book. I can also recommend this book highly to fans of Sharon McCrumb, another great southern mystery writer.

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Competent mystery with a strong shot of research.

Uncommon Clay is entertaining to read just for the color and background which Maron's research brings to the work. Set among the potter families of North Carolina, Maron brings the world of craftsmen and collectors to life and sets a killer loose.

I have enjoyed other books in the Knott series a bit more than this one, but it is still a reasonable mystery and one that kept me reading and entertained. Three-and-a-half-stars, really.

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Whenever Judge Deborah Knott comes to town, murder seems to follow. Her eighth outing takes the young district judge to the pottery-rich town of Seagrove, North Carolina for routine divorce proceedings. But quickly she finds herself in all-too-familiar territory when the legal and artistic battle between two potters, James Lucas and Sandra Kay Nordan, ends in murder. Deborah soon learns that this is not the first tragedy to wound Amos Nordan, proud patriarch of the clan. In the end, it will take Deborahs insight into the very heart of vengeance to understand what past tragedy still stalks the Nordan family.

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