Uncommon Clay — Margaret Maron

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 Southern arts and sudden death.

Both blessed and cursed by the red clay country of North Carolina, the Nordan clan has grown into a dynasty of skilled potters--while at the same time its members have fallen prey to suicide and scandal. Drawn into their fold is Judge Deborah Knott, who is overseeing the distribution of property in the bitter divorce between two Nordan artisans. After gruesome violence suddenly strikes the homestead, Judge Knott must quickly untangle the darkest twists of the human heart to stop a killer--a remorseless fiend who will stop at nothing to continue a dark saga of old sins and new blood ...