Doesn't disappoint, but it lacks something.....

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	• Rituals of the Season (Deborah Knott Mysteries) Margaret Maron Mysterious Press, 2005 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Not Really a Mystery but Still Enjoyable

Rituals of the Season by Margaret Maron is more a "slice of life" novel about family and about Deborah Knott's upcoming wedding to Dwight Bryant than it is a mystery novel. Nevertheless it is a comfortable read with a strong insight into life in a large southern family as well as a small community where everybody knows everybody. There is the shooting of an Assistant District Attorney and an old murder involving someone on Death Row, but both of these are merely window dressing for Deborah's exploration of her past and her future life with Dwight.

Find yourself a nice rainy day when you are lonesome for family and curl up in a chair by the fireplace to enjoy this one. It'll make you feel as tough you've come home.

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Doesn't disappoint, but it lacks something.....

#11 of the Deborah Knott series-I have read 9 of the series just this year. Mostly because this was a bookclub book and I made it a point to read all the books that led up to #11. This was a critical book for the series. Deborah ties the "knot" in this one. I enjoyed the Knott story and the mystery wasn't bad either. An ADA is shot while driving in her car and her adopted daughter dies in the crash. Dwight is working the murder and of course, Deborah is involved as usual. A third mystery is added to the mix because, Tracey, the murdered ADA, was looking into a case where the convicted murderer (a female) is currently on death-row. The question is, did she really do it? Two young law students are reviewing the case and Deborah gets involved because, like almost every other character in the series, they are distantly related to her some how. I enjoyed the book. I thought the mystery and the storyline blended well. However, it wasn't spectacular

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A Family Story

In Rituals of the Season, Margaret Maron focuses largely on family- Deborah Knott's huge, extended family and her new family with her upcoming wedding to Dwight Bryant. There is a mystery involving the shooting of an Assistant district Attorney, and another mystery involving the conviction of a local woman who was sentenced to Death Row for clubbing her stepson to death with a softball bat. However, these are peripheral to the hustle and bustle surrounding a Christmas wedding.

I did find myself getting lost in the numerous cast of characters many times-- Maron helpfully put a family tree type chart at the beginning of the book showing all of Deborah's brothers and their families but the chart did not account for all the cousins and aunts and uncles and friends and other attorneys and sheriff's department personnel-- I had to constantly flip pages back to figure out who anybody was.

Other than that, it's an enjoyable book-- although it's really not much of a mystery.

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Not her best, but still enjoyable.

Judge Deborah Knott is in the middle of plans for her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant a little more than a week away. When the Assistant DA is killed from a gunshot while driving her car, secrets about the woman are uncovered, questions about the guilt of a woman on death row about to be executed are raised and the possible involvement of a fellow officer are suspect.

Maron does a wonderful job conveying the atmosphere and relationships of a small Southern town. I particularly love the dialogue with the local vernacular. She also handled the possible ethical problems of the relationship of a judge and a police officer well. Although I understand the reason for it, I didn't care for the switch between the first- and third-person points of view. At times, I did feel the mystery is almost lost in the wedding plans and the family. It's not, in my view, her best book, but it is still an interesting read and enjoyable addition to the series.

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Very good

I always enjoy this books I think that I have read every one of the Debrah Knott series, I enjoy the friendships and trouble that she always seems to get into. The mysteries are always intriguing and keep you interested in whatever is going on, and your always trying to guess who do it.

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Only days away from her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Knott has more than enough worries to keep her busy. With her sisters-in-law dissecting every detail of the ceremony, her brothers making book on whether her very pregnant matron of honour will be in the church or in labour, her house torn up by carpenters and plumbers, and Dwight's young son expected for Christmas, Deborah doesn't need a murder on her wedding plate as well - but that's exactly what she gets.

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