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    The Buzzard Table
    The Buzzard Table
    The Buzzard Table
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Buzzard Table

    Written by Margaret Maron

    Narrated by C. J. Critt

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    About this audiobook

    Margaret Maron's mysteries starring Judge Deborah Knott have built a loyal following since debuting with the Edgar Award-winning The Bootlegger's Daughter. The series' 18th entry finds Deborah and her husband, Deputy Sheriff Bryant, teaming up with Lt. Sigrid Herald to track down a killer on the loose in their small North Carolina town. But as the hunt for the culprit gets more intense, they uncover long-hidden secrets that cast their investigation in a whole new light.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateNov 20, 2012
    ISBN9781470324025
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    • 2/5
      Another in the series. Pretty predictable. A 'comfort food' read.
    • 5/5
      I'm still really loving this series. Deborah and Dwight are so great together as a couple and also as investigators. Even though they work apart in their jobs they can share certain information and sometimes it helps.

      This one has two dead bodies and one assault and it is a bit confusing. A realtor is missing and then found dead, a pilot is found dead in his hotel room and a young boy is knocked unconscious and almost killed. Are all these crimes tied together or not, that is the puzzle that Dwight is trying to untie.

      Sigrid Harald is visiting her grandmother, mother and aunts and works with Dwight to help solve the crimes.

      Maron just keeps getting better and better, I am so glad I've caught up on this series so I can now say I'm waiting impatiently for the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my favorite Deborah Knott installments! The buzzard/turkey vulture theme running throughout was surprisingly interesting, but not overbearing, and added a quirkiness the plot. I enjoyed learning a little more of Deborah's family's history , and the addition of Sigrid Harald, visiting North Carolina this time, added intrigue; although Sigrid didn't say much vocally, her presence did.

      I'm ready for the next Deborah Knott book!

    • 4/5
      Author: Margaret MaronPublished by: Grand Central PublishingAge Recommended: AdultReviewed By: Arlena DeanBook Blog For: GMTARating: 4Review:"The Buzzard Table" by Margaret Maron was another good mystery series that is is well known for giving to her readers. I believe this is her #18th series. I found "The Buzzard Table" very intriguing and with a unique cast of characters from Colleton County, North Carolina. We find Judge Knott, her family and friends living in the rural South. In this mystery its will have old military secrets, which will bring on hard choices for Deputy Dwight Bryant...then the weird murder and mayhem brought on by greed, lust and revenge and with Deborah goes into new levels with a relationship with her stepson Cal. There are a string of suspicious murders has set everyone on edge. Sigrid Harald and her mother Anne are in town from New York, visiting Anne's mother, Mrs Lattimore is is quite ill dying of cancer. Martin Crawford who is Ann's cousin is also in town researching vultures when they meet, only she feels like she already has run across him at some time, but she can't seem to remember.With all that is going on we now have Deborah, Dwight and Sigrid working together to solve these murders and also uncovering family secrets that have been long buried. This is the time that I say you must pick up "The Buzzard Table" to see how Ms. Maron will take us to the end in this series. So, again you will get plenty of 'family interaction while they solve crimes and live normal lives in small town of Colleton County, North Carolina.' If you are interested in a good mystery, you have come to the right place for "The Buzzard Table" is what I would recommend you as a good read. It may help you somewhat if you have been keeping up with the series.
    • 4/5
      I always enjoy a visit with the Knotts and the Bryants of Colleton County.
    • 3/5
      Perfectly pleasant, but I'm not sure the characters from her two series needed to meet again.
    • 5/5
      Excellent mystery. While this was not the most complex of Maron's books in this series, it was interesting enough that I didn't want to put it down. The crossover between this series and her Sigald Harald series adds a different angle to the whole North Carolina family environment. Part of what I love about her books is that her setting and characters feel so authentic and interesting.
    • 4/5
      Nice to read about Deborah at home in Collecton County -- but where were all the brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces, and most important, Daddy?
    • 4/5
      Per usual very good read. Margaret Maron has that way to incorporate a good mystery with just enough family drama and hope, I'm never disappointed. I love entering her books and delving into the town and its characters.
    • 5/5
      A differnt kind of book from Maron. She has always made passing reference to North Carolina politics, but this time she comments on rendition, intelligence agencies and spies, Her hook is Dwight Byant's background in army intelligence and a relation by marriage's connection to terrorism. Very interestingly woven between the more usual marriage triangle murder and family issues like Deborah's adoption of her stepson, Cal.I like the way everyone evolves in these books. One of the things that makes the Deborah Knott books so wonderful.
    • 4/5
      The... okay, okay, I have no idea what number novel this is in the Deborah Knott series (somewhere in the teens). But, just like all the previous ones I eagerly awaited it and it didn't disappoint for the most part.In this one just like the last, Sigrid Harald is in the book, though this time the story takes place in North Carolina and Sigrid is down visiting her mother (who's somehow related to Deb) and her dying grandmother.The story starts with a missing Realtor and then a mysterious relative of Sigrid's grandmother (who's British) who's taken a weird interest in the turkey vultures.There is also a small subplot about a young man who lost his brother in Iraq and is a wanna be photojournalist who needs some guidance in his life (he appears in Deb's courtroom).Dwight is what connects all these stories at first of course, but then it's also nice how all the stories eventually dovetail with each other. Sometimes in unsurprising ways and sometimes in surprising ways.I also liked the Sigrid and Anne (Sigrid's mother for those like me who haven't read Margaret Maron's Sigrid series novels) points of view. It was slightly different and interesting.Unfortunately to get in more Sigrid something else in the book had to be cut, and that happened to be my favorite part of these books, the Deborah Knott in the courtroom stuff. *pounds desk* More Deb in the Courtroom, More Deb in the Courtroom. (sorry, the protests from one of the plots inspired me).Still, the writing was great as usual and the family stuff, both the Bryant/Knott family as well as the Lattimore/Harald family stuff was amazing too. And then the last page (after the novel was over and before the Acknowledgments) was totally awesome.
    • 4/5
      Another good entry in these fine series, this time featuring both the judge and the lieutenant. This is a good team effort although the sheriff and his staff do most of the heavy lifting. Lots of family involved in resolving an almost fatal experience of Sigrid's mom, Ann during her globetrotting days.
    • 4/5
      This is one of the better Deborah Knott novels. The regular cast of characters is as engaging as ever, and the addition of Sigrid Harald adds an acerbic note that is in welcome contrast to the "southernness" of it all. The story is more involving than have been the stories in the past few novels. It is an interesting mystery that has political ramifications, and raises a moral issue. A good read, which is what we expect from Margaret Maron.
    • 5/5
      Liked it. The bringing together of the two series is a little odd, and disturbs my continuity. I'd like more Sigrid Harald, but I'm not sure this is the way to get it. I did like seeing a bit more of Dwight's background.
    • 4/5
      Another in the long series of Deborah Knott books from Margaret Maron, this one has more overt political comments that usual. (It's obvious from the comments that Maron is a liberal from the conservative south.) They do not harm the general plot, but I did not think they added anything either with their rather sweeping generalizations. That said, the premise is interesting and informative as an Englishman arrives to study the local population of turkey buzzards (or vultures as they are known in the U.S.) A buzzard fact is included at the beginning of each chapter, although one repeats from earlier in the book. (Maybe there's not really that much to say about them?) It seems that political prisoners regularly pass through Coleton County, and a couple of people die under mysterious circumstances who have connections to the airstrip where the planes land to re-fuel. Deborah's husband, Dwight Bryant, begins an investigation only to have it taken off of his hands by the FBI. Of course, Deborah also becomes involved in spite of herself. Also in this book is the possible adoption by Deborah of Dwight's son, Cal. Members of Deborah's very large family make some appearances, too. It's a good chance to check in on Judge Knott and her family. It could be read as a stand-alone or as part of the series.
    • 3/5
      The Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina are interesting and Maron always educates the readers about something. The education in this novel is about buzzards and about the transportation of prisoners. Of course, the multi generations of the Knott clan pose a mystery to many with all the intrigue relationships. I especially enjoy the courtroom proceedings and Deborah's sense of justice. Also, Maron pounds home the sense of a child's belonging to a family as in the case of Cal.
    • 5/5
      Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist researching a book on Southern vultures. He's also Mrs. Lattimore's long-lost nephew With her health in decline, Mrs. Lattimore wants to make amends with her family - a desire Deborah can understand, as she, too, works to strengthen her relationship with her young stepson, Cal.
    • 4/5
      The latest Deborah Knott mystery also features Lt Sigrid Harald, in Colleton County to stay with her dying grandmother. The interactions are interesting, as is the mystery and its resolution. We learn more about Dwight's past, too.
    • 4/5
      The Buzzard Table (Deborah Knott #18)Margaret Maron 4 STARSThis is the first Deborah Knott mystery that I have read but it will not be the last. I actually had another book of Margaret Maron's in my to read pile so now it will go towards the top of the pile. I like finding new authors that I have not read that have a list of book I can now go read.I guess that this book brings two series together in it, Deborah Knott & Lt. Sigrid Harald. I understand that they had met in a earlier book.Deborah has a big close family and most of them live close together. Thier are a lot of characters that are mentioned and probably met in another book. It is pretty easy to pick up and read Buzzard Table #18 and not be lost because I have not read any of the other 17 books before it.Deborah is a judge in North Carolina. She has 11 older brothers. Her husband Dwight of a year is a deputy and as a son that he has living with them since his mother died a year ago.Thier is a man from England Martin Crawford that has been studing turkey buzzards and photos of them. He has written books on different birds. He has a old foundation that he feeds them road kill and calls it a table. He is a distant relative of Sigrid and staying in an old family home with no electricity close to where Deborah's family farm is.Sigrid and her mother are visiting because her grandmother Mrs. Lattimore is dying. Deborah let it slip when they had met earlier in New York city.Thier is a real estate agent that has gone missing and in one of the houses she has been working with has a big blood stain on the couch.Thier is a dead body found in the motel but after working the scene for a short time the FBI has taken over the scene and does not want Dwights help. Dwight does not want to share with them either. He was in the milatary and has some secrets he is keeping from his wife. Another theme in the book deals with flights that might be taking prisoners from the United states to other countries that have more laxed laws about torture in them. A high school student is in Deborah's court for breaking into a airport building to try and take pictures of the plane. He gets community service and one of the people he gets to work with is Sigrid's Mother who is a photojournalist.It is a novel where you get to know the characters and the community. As Dwights works the different cases.I was given this ebook to read in exchange of honest review from Netgalley.Published November 20th 2012 by Grand Central Publishing 320 pages ISBN 0446555827