num_pages: 245
description: The three best things about Margaret Maron's series of mysteries starring Judge Deborah Knott are the setting (a small North Carolina town threatened by prosperity), the plots (lots of big and little stories that usually got all twisted together), and Judge Knott herself -- a realistic blend of toughness and compassion. In her new outing, Maron brings the action very close to a handsome drifter who was briefly Deborah's husband during her flaming youth is the chief suspect in a murder, and the land which her father amassed from his profits as a bootlegger is in danger of being sold for tract housing. (To catch up with previous Knott adventures, try Bootlegger's Daughter and Shooting at Loons.
language: English
title: Up Jumps the Devil
titlecomplete: Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #4)
genres: Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook, Adult, Detective, Southern, Thriller, Cozy Mystery, Crime, Mystery
ratings_count: 2806
places: North Carolina
series: Deborah Knott Mysteries
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Agatha Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Robert Hale Ltd