Margaret Maron

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1981
  • Latest Book:
    July 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Deborah Knott Mystery

1 - Bootlegger's Daughter (Jun-1993)
2 - Southern Discomfort (Jun-1994)
3 - Shooting at Loons (Jun-1994)
4 - Up Jumps the Devil (Jul-1997)
5 - Killer Market (Aug-1997)
6 - Home Fires (Dec-1998)
7 - Storm Track (Apr-2000)
8 - Uncommon Clay (May-2001)
9 - Slow Dollar (Sep-2002)
10 - High Country Fall (Aug-2004)
11 - Rituals of the Season (Aug-2005)
12 - Winter's Child (Sep-2006)
13 - Hard Row (Sep-2007)
14 - Death's Half Acre (Aug-2008)
15 - Sand Sharks (Aug-2009)
16 - Christmas Mourning (Nov-2010)
17 - Three-day Town (Nov-2011)
17.3 - With This Ring (Jan-2012)
17.5 - Deborah's Judgment (Jan-2012)
17.7 - Bewreathed (Feb-2012)
18 - The Buzzard Table (Nov-2012)
19 - Designated Daughters (Aug-2014)
20 - Long Upon the Land (Aug-2015)

Sigrid Harald

1 - One Coffee With (Jun-1981)
2 - Death of a Butterfly (Dec-1984)
3 - Death in Blue Folders (Apr-1985)
4 - The Right Jack (May-1995)
5 - Baby Doll Games (Jun-1995)
6 - Corpus Christmas (Oct-1989)
7 - Past Imperfect (Jan-1991)
7.5 - Lieutenant Harold And The Impossible Gun (Nov-1996)
8 - Fugitive Colors (Jun-1995)
9 - Take Out (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • One Coffee With

    Sigrid Harald - 1
    Raven House Mysteries - 54

    There was more than cream in Professor Ripley Quinn's morning coffee. One of eight people present in the art department office had slipped in a spoonful of poison. NYPD detective Sigrid Harald stepped back and viewed this puzzler carefully, thoug...

  • On Windy Ridge

    in Canine Crimes II

    Thirteen timeless classics of mystery -- all featuring unforgettable dog heroes -- are together for the very first time in Canine Crimes II. Culled from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, these often...

  • Death of a Butterfly

    Sigrid Harald - 2

    DETECTIVE SIGRID HARALD, NYPD Lt. Sigrid Harald's fellow cops say she has ice water in her veins. To be sure, when it comes to murder, this lady is one cool customer. DEATH OF A BUTTERFLY A young mother is found brutally bludgeoned on the kitche...

  • Death in Blue Folders

    Sigrid Harald - 3

    Blackmail had been a profitable sideline for attorney Clayton Gladwell until someone put an end to it -- and to him -- with a well-placed bullet. -- Lieutenant Sigrid Harald of the New York Police Department soon finds that opening the dead man'...

  • Bloody Kin

    In the South, they like to keep it in the family... Even murder! -- When Jake Honeycutt died in a hunting accident, his wife, Kate, hoped that moving to his family farm in North Carolina would help heal her grief and provide a home for their unborn...

  • Corpus Christmas

    Sigrid Harald - 6

    The holiday blues can be murder in this classic mystery from Margaret Maron, the award-winning author of the popular Deborah Knott series. A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the venerable, art-filled Erich Breul House is hosting a grand Yuletide par...

  • Past Imperfect

    Sigrid Harald - 7

    The fatal shooting of off-duty detective Michael Cluett, recently transferred from Manhattan to Brooklyn and days short of his 40-year tenure, sets off the series of intertwining investigations. After the shooting, lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Cluett&#...

  • The Beast Within

    in Cat Crimes 2
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    From the pens of today's most prolific, popular, and feline-fancying mystery writers comes CAT CRIMES 2, a chilling collection of original stories that will leave cat- and mystery-lovers purring for more. Inside you'll encounter the Bogart drawl of P...

  • Bootlegger's Daughter

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 1

    Unconventional, still unwed (at the ripe old age of 34) North Carolina attorney Deborah Knott has done the unthinkable: tossed her hat into the heated race for district judge of old boy-ruled Colleton County. The only female candidate, she's busy def...



  • Shooting at Loons

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 3

    A JUDGE IN DEEP WATER...AND OVER HER HEAD IN MURDER Judge Deborah Knott is taking a working vacation on North Carolina's lush Crystal Coast, where a centuries-old way of life is as endangered as loons and sea turtles. The frustration and fear the ...

  • Southern Discomfort

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 2

    Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous rece...

  • The Right Jack

    Sigrid Harald - 4

    Homicide detective Sigrid Harald has one of the coolest demeanors on New York's dangerous streets. But now, beneath the ice, she's as hot as blazes. Her partner, Detective Tildon, should have been safe as churches at his cribbage tournament in a posh...

  • Baby Doll Games

    Sigrid Harald - 5

    A murder committed in front of children is a crime that chills the heart of even a cool-headed NYPD homicide detective like Sigrid Harald. But behind her icy facade, her feelings and sympathies run deep. and her emotional radar can spot hidden feelin...

  • Fugitive Colors

    Sigrid Harald - 8

    LAVENDER'S BLUE, BLOOD'S RED, AND DEATH IS DEEP, DARK BLACK... Losing a fellow officer in a shoot-out cracks NYPD Lt. Sigrid Harald's cool professional shell. Discovering that her lover, famous artist Oscar Nauman, has been killed completely shatt...

  • Lieutenant Harold And The Impossible Gun

    in Modern Treasury of Great Detective and Murder Mysteries
    Sigrid Harald - 7.5

    No hit-or-miss anthology, this first-rate collection of 25 contemporary mysteries offers a cross-section view of the American detective, suspense and mystery short-story worlds. Gorman, editor of Mystery Scene, gathers the works of such masters as To...

  • Shoveling Smoke

    The creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity about how time and place influence people and events, about how past generations continue to ou...

  • Up Jumps the Devil

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 4

    On thing Deborah Knott knows for sure. Just when everything is going great -- up jumps the devil. In this case he's Allen Stancil, a black sheep back in North Carolina after one of the Stancil clan--rednecks all and proud of it -- gets shot to de...

  • Killer Market

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 5

    SHE'S ONE OF THE SOUTH'S NEW WOMEN. A FEISTY NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE.... AND A PRIME SUSPECT IN A CHILLING CASE OF MURDER. The Honorable Deborah Knott could kill for a good night's sleep. She arrives in High Point, North Carolina, dead tired, only t...

  • Home Fires

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 6

    While campaigning, judge and occasional sleuth Deborah Knott joins forces with exBlack Panther Wallace Adderly to discover who is responsible for the fiery destruction of two AfricanAmerican churchesone of which caused the death of a young man. Repri...



  • Malice Domestic 8

    A collection of traditional mystery tales includes original works by Nevada Barr, Amanda Cross, Mary Daheim, Jonathan Gash, Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, Susan Kenney, Abigail Padgett, and Lynda Robinson...

  • Storm Track

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 7

    NATURAL KILLER Violent storms often hit Colleton County, North Carolina, but when a local attorney's promiscuous wife is killed, the murder blows the lids off more homes than last year's hurricane. As the victim's numerous lovers--including a hand...

  • Uncommon Clay

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 8

    With judge and investigator Deborah Knott, Edgar-award winning and -bestselling author Margaret Maron has brilliantly realized a character who claims more fans with each new book. Now, in her newest triumph, she presents an engrossing tale of Souther...

  • Slow Dollar

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 9

    A moonlit autumn night brings out half the county to fill the Tilt-O-Whirl with squealing riders and the dirt around Polly's Pitch Plate with losers' quarters. But in an air nostalgically sweet with caramel apple and spun sugar, one crooked game ends...

  • Last Lessons of Summer

    Her grandmother was killed in the very same house where her mother committed suicide. Now, in the suffocating heat of a Southern August, Amy Steadman, heir to a merchandising and publishing empire, returns to the old family homestead to clear out her...

  • Suitable for Hanging: Selected Stories

    MYSTERY & SUSPENSE FROM AN EDGAR WINNER

    The creator of Judge Deborah Knott and Lieutenant Sigrid Harald and the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Margaret Maron is one of the finest contemporary mystery writers. Maron has a sensitivity abo...

  • High Country Fall

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 10

    Judge Deborah Knott has agreed to "tie the knot" with childhood friend Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, and her numerous relatives are acting as if it's the love match of the century. It's not, and suddenly Deborah's wondering whether friendship, mutual...

  • Rituals of the Season

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 11

    The multiple winner of the most coveted prizes for mystery fiction, Margaret Maron is back with a new tale featuring her perennially popular sleuth Judge Deborah Knott. Only days away from her wedding to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant, Judge Deborah Kn...

  • Winter's Child

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 12

    Its one month after their wedding, and the future looks bright for Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff Deputy Dwight Bryantuntil a disturbing call from Dwights 8-year-old son Cal calls him back to Virginia. When he arrives, he is shocked to find that his...

  • Hard Row

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 13

    As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine li...



  • Death's Half Acre

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 14

    Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. As farms give way to shoddy mansions, farmers struggle to slow the rampant growth. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners use their political leverage to make profitabl...

  • Sand Sharks

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 15

    Judge Deborah Knott can't wait to trade the lush fields of Colleton County for the beautiful ocean at Wrightsville Beach and a conference for the North Carolina district court judges. Overwhelmed by her newly married life and responsibilities of bein...

  • Small Change

    in Crimes by Moonlight

    An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes...

  • Christmas Mourning

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 16

    It's Christmas in rural North Carolina's Colleton County and Judge Deborah Knott is looking forward to a family celebration when a tragedy clouds the holiday season. A beautiful young cheerleader dies in a car crash and the community is devastated by...

  • Three-day Town

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 17

    After a year of marriage, Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are off to New York City for a long-delayed honeymoon. January might not be the perfect time to take a bite of the Big Apple, but Dwight's sister-in-law has arranged for...

  • Deborah's Judgment

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 17.5

    Originally published in “A Woman’s Eye,” edited by Sara Paretsky (1991) and republished in “Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories by Margaret Maron”, Crippen & Landru (1997)."When I first began to contemplate a new series, Sara Paretsky...

  • With This Ring

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 17.3

    Originally published in “Crimes of the Heart” edited by Carolyn G. Hart and Martin Harry Greenberg (1993) and republished in “Shoveling Smoke: Selected Mystery Stories by Margaret Maron”, Crippen & Landru (1997).“The whole subject of brides...

  • Bewreathed

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 17.7

    Chronologically, this story takes place between "Rituals of the Season" and "Winter’s Child." Marilyn Wallace, writing as Maggie Bruce, asked if I would contribute a story that featured some sort of craft for her anthology "Murder Most Crafty." I t...

  • Postcards From the Mediterranean

    Three short stories from the Mediterranean, featuring Lt. Sigrid Harald or her housemate, Roman Tramegra. All three were previously published, but collected here for the first time.My first three years of marriage were spent in Italy, overlooking th...

  • The Buzzard Table

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 18

    Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are back home in Colleton County with all their family and courthouse regulars. But there are a few new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Herald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down ...



  • Five Christmas Gifts

    Margaret Maron says, "For me, Christmas has always been a time of family joy and I can get downright sentimental about the holiday. This Christmas collection combines a non-fiction anecdote with fictional stories, including a look at Deborah Knott b...

  • Designated Daughters

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 19

    When Judge Deborah Knott is summoned to her ailing Aunt Rachel's bedside, she assumes the worst. Thankfully when she arrives at the hospice center she learns that Rachel hasn't passed; in fact, the dying woman is awake. Surrounded by her children, he...

  • Long Upon the Land

    A Deborah Knott Mystery - 20

    LONG UPON THE LAND On a quiet August morning, Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie makes a shocking discovery on a remote corner of his farm: the body of a man bludgeoned to death. Investigating this crime, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwigh...

  • Take Out

    Sigrid Harald - 9

    NYPD Detective Sigrid Harald is still reeling from the untimely death of her lover, acclaimed painter Oscar Nauman, when she is called to investigate the poisoning of two homeless men in the West Village. As she examines the mysterious deaths, Sigrid...

Award-Winning Books by Margaret Maron

Bootlegger's Daughter
1992 Agatha Award -- Novel
1993 Anthony Award -- Novel
1993 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel
1993 Macavity Award -- Mystery Novel
Deborah's Judgment
1991 Agatha Award -- Short Story
Long Upon the Land
2015 Agatha Award -- Contemporary Novel
Storm Track
2000 Agatha Award -- Novel
Three-day Town
2011 Agatha Award -- Novel
Up Jumps the Devil
1996 Agatha Award -- Novel


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Margaret Maron has published 43 books.

Margaret Maron does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Take Out, was published in July 2017.

The first book by Margaret Maron, One Coffee With, was published in June 1981.

Yes. Margaret Maron has 2 series.
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