Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Formats
Description
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 profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
22) Killer market
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 5
Formats
Description
North Carolina district court judge Deborah Knott unintentionally "crashes" several manufacturer's receptions at the internationally known Southeastern Furniture Market in High Point, where she becomes involved in murder. Initially befriended by a mysterious and elusive woman with bogus name tags, series protagonist Knott soon runs into an old woman friend from law school as well as a hunky ex-beau now in the furniture business. When Deborah later...
24) The cheater
Author
Series
Lily Forrester novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Investigating a web site providing alibis for cheating spouses, Lily Forrester is again on the trail of a vicious criminal, and teams up with an FBI agent tracking a murderer who targets unfaithful husbands.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is famous for her stylish collars (called jabots) and her commanding dissents. This opera-loving New Yorker has always spoken her mind; as a young lawyer, RBG advocated for gender equality and women's rights when few others did. She gained attention for the cases she won when arguing in front of the Supreme Court, before taking her place on the bench in 1993. Author Patricia Brennan Demuth answers all the question about...
26) Sand sharks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Formats
Description
When Judge Deborah Knott travels to WrightsvilleBeach for a summer conference for North Carolina District Court Judges, she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. Meanwhile, Deborah's husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, is in Virginia with his son, tying up loose ends left by the death of his first wife. When another judge is found murdered at the conference, it soon becomes evident that Deborah may be the killer's next target. Her...
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A few days after Dallas Stancil refuses to sell his land to a speculator, his stepson and wife murder him. Then, Dallas's peripatetic cousin Allen, the devil from Deborah's past, comes to town. Several days later, Dallas's father, Jap, is killed just before he can divide the property between Merrilee Grimes, his late wife's niece, and Allen. So who killed Jap, and who gets the Stancil land?Dallas's widow? Allen? Merrilee and her husband, Pete? Billy...
Author
Formats
Description
"She was born in 1930 in El Paso and grew up on a cattle ranch in Arizona. At a time when women were expected to be homemakers, she set her sights on Stanford University. When she graduated near the top of her class at law school in 1952, no firm would even interview her. But Sandra Day O'Connor's story is that of a woman who repeatedly shattered glass ceilings--doing so with a blend of grace, wisdom, humor, understatement, and cowgirl toughness....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with readers the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
31) Slow dollar
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 9
Formats
Description
For Judge Knott, the case before her seems to be an ordinary misdemeanor--except that the personal property that's been destroyed is an inflatable carnival ride. When the carnival comes to her own town a few weeks later, Deborah soon discovers there's nothing ordinary about this rag-tag collection of rides and games.
32) Anthem: a novel
Author
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
33) Three-day town
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are in New York, finally on a honeymoon after a year of marriage. The January trip is a Christmas present from Dwight's sister-in-law, who arranged for them to stay in an apartment for one week. While there, Deborah has been asked to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. Sigrid offers to swing by the apartment to pick up the box, only to discover that it is missing and the doorman...
Author
Series
Deborah Knott mysteries volume 11
Formats
Description
Judge Deborah Knott has a severe case of anxiety in the final days before her late December nuptials to Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant. Her calendar is booked solid with receptions and parties, last-minute details, and family obligations. There is absolutely no way she can fit a homicide case into her schedule. Nevertheless, when a friend and colleague is shot on the icy drive home and Dwight becomes the lead detective on the case, Deborah is immediately...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"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 Dwight Bryant, soon uncovers a long-simmering hostility between Kezzie and the slain man over a land dispute. The local newspaper implies that Deborah's family may have had something to do with the murder-and that Dwight is dragging...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Inspired by the powerful true story of a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, On the Basis of Sex depicts a then-struggling attorney and new mother facing adversity in her fight for equal rights. When Ruth takes on a ground-breaking case, she knows the outcome could alter the courts' view of gender discrimination. Stronger together, Ruth teams up with her husband, Martin Ginsburg, to fight the case that catapults her into one of the most important public figures...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
When Vietnam vet Willie Grisseljon stumbles upon a body near his hometown in Illinois, his war memories flood back and he flees the scene. When a passing sheriff's deputy notices his odd behavior, he is taken to a mental ward. Willie's sister, Sylvia, a judge in Florida, comes to rescue him and together they work on solving the mystery surrounding the murder of a man who was trying to establish a prairie grass preserve.
38) Uncommon clay
Author
Description
The famous Nordan family, who live in an area of North Carolina known for its pottery, is being torn apart by a traumatic and bitter divorce. Judge Deborah Knotts oversees distribution of the marital property, but her work is interrupted by a tragic death in the family reminiscent of a terrible suicide two years earlier.
Author
Formats
Description
Judge Deborah Knott and Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant are back home in Colleton County. Lt. Sigrid Herald and her mother, Anne, are down from New York to visit Anne's ailing mother, Mrs. Lattimore. When the group gathers at Mrs. Lattimore's home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist researching a new book. More importantly, he is Mrs. Lattimore's long-lost nephew. Anne can't shake the feeling that there is something familiar...