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    Slow Dollar
    Slow Dollar
    Slow Dollar
    Audiobook8 hours

    Slow Dollar

    Written by Margaret Maron

    Narrated by C.J. Critt

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    About this audiobook

    Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, Macavity, and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott, a lawyer, district judge, and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, someone commits murder. As Deborah investigates, she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous secrets begins to unravel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 11, 2008
    ISBN9781449800437
    Slow Dollar

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    • 4/5
      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 with a brutal death ... and Judge Deborah Knott will discover more than a body. For beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface swirl dark secrets that Deborah has kept hidden for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with the demands of the law, she must struggle to win a carny's trust-before the killer pins a bull's-eye on yet another victim.
    • 4/5
      No. 9 in the Judge Deborah Knott series. This one was a carnival ride...no, really. Maron likes to pick a little world and make it real for us; she's done it with the North Carolina furniture industry; the realm of pottery-making; the feud between fishermen and land-developers along the Atlantic coast....and now, she has taken us into the caravans and grab wagons of the small traveling carnival, where humans are no more nor less greedy, venial and murderous than they are anywhere else. Deborah's family and love life continue to provide emotional ups and downs for her and for us. May it ever be thus. This series is not getting old.Review written July 2014
    • 4/5
      Carnival comes to Colleton County and provides a corpse with its mouth stuffed with quarters. When the body is identified, a relationship with the Knott's family is discovered. Solving the crime gets a bit untidy with another murder and needs to be resolved before the carnival moves on. As always a good story from this fine author with little twists sprinkled throughout so that the reader sustains their interest.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: The carnival is in town and Deborah goes along to see what is happening. At one of the games, Deborah finds the person who is supposed to be running the event dead with nickels stuffed in this mouth. What makes this worse is that he's the son of a long lost niece who actually owns the carnival. In other news, Deborah and Dwight finally find each other.Review: This was interesting since the setting was in a carnival and the author provided some background for the context. The plot was also interesting in that it didn't telegraph the culprit until the last few pages.
    • 4/5
      SLOW DOLLAR by Margaret MaronFans of Deborah Knott will appreciate this novel that introduces some long lost relatives, visits a carnival and finds murder among the rides and “stores.” You will learn quite a bit about carnivals and the carnies that populate them. Deborah’s relatives are kind, forgiving, mean spirited, long suffering, angry – you name it. They are all here just like in real life. Maron supplies us with another tightly crafted, engaging mystery. Although the 8th tale in this series, you can read this book without having read any of the others. The family tree is helpful in identifying all of Deborah’s many brothers and their progeny. A satisfying read. 4 of 5 stars
    • 4/5
      Dwight has a girlfriend, sorta. And the Carnival's in town, and somehow with it come new Knott family members. I'm pretty sure at this point that the Knott family is solely responsible for the over population of the world.There's also a murder of one of the carnies and that brings Dwight into the novel. Also, as usual, Deborah gets herself oh so very mixed up in the investigation that looks at both the carnies and the townies for who the killer is.I have to say that, unfortunately some of the carnival slang went right over my head (I'm still not exactly sure why a bathroom/toilet is a donnicker). It probably would have helped if I had realized that there was a glossary in the back too, oops.My favorite part of the book was the Dwight subplot. Although I like the character of Deb, Dwight has always been my favorite character in the Knott series, he's both an extremely complicated and yet very simple character. And in this novel not only does he get a doosey of a story line, but it's a bit of a cliffhanger too. Very nice.
    • 5/5
      I really like the Judge Deborah Knott books but this one was excellent. There is a murder or two to solve, a lot (I mean A LOT) of family lore and even some family mysteries involved. And what would a Judge Knott book be without some romantic intrigue? This book delivers in spades.

      I was glad to see more of Kezzie, Deborah's father, in this book, I missed him in the last one.

      The story here revolves around one of the Summer (or in the South's case Fall) traveling carnivals that come to town. Murder ensues and Deborah is worried that some of her kin are involved - maybe not with the murder but could they be covering something up for someone?

      There is a lot of carnival lore and history that was just fascinating. Ms. Maron didn't pull any punches, there is a lot that is unsavory in the carnival world but she also brings to life people who do this work and the hard life they live with just a few months work to survive for the entire year.

      I'm really looking forward to the next in the series.
    • 5/5
      Great Deborah Knott Mystery book!
    • 5/5
      Book 9 in the Judge Deborah Knott series brings Deborah back home. The mystery and title deal with a small traveling Carnival that comes to town. It comes every year but this year it also brings murder, where the carnies die, while the public has fun.Another very well done book. It works in the life of a carny and Deborah's family. She discovers a long lost family member. The rest of the family and friends are there too. Just can't get enough.Fun, light, fast, heartwarming read.
    • 5/5
      9th in the Judge Deborah Knott of North Carolina series.A small carnival comes to Widdington, and Judge Knott is asked to rule on damage done by three drunken Colleton County “boys” to a ride; for some reason, the owner of the ride, Tallahassee (Tal) Ames, seems familiar. Later, when the same carnival appears in Dobbs for the Harvest Festival, a young man is murdered at the game where Deborah and Dwight are playing. To her shock, Deborah discovers that his mother is Tal Ames, and that Tal is a long-lost niece.That’s the matrix for this latest installment, where Maron again enjoys giving the reader insight into yet another business—carnivals—along with a good plot. As is her wont, Maron uses yet another one of her myriad family members—her brother Andrew—to use as a believable plot device. Also in this book, Deborah and Dwight make an unusual business arrangement that simply blows the mind of all friends and family.A much earlier book, Slow Dollar is reminiscent of Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen. although a shorter book, Slow Dollar looks at carnival life in almost as much depth as the much longer book by Gruen. In fact, Maron, who has a long-time association with the carnival through her cousin, actually gives a broader perspective on the carnival, talking in depth about the games, food wagons, and basic needs of he carnival itself from the owner's point of view, rather than from that of the employees, as in the Gruen book. Both are something of exposés. Both books are utterly fascinating in their own ways.Although the plot is nothing special, Maron’s affection for both carnivals and her characters is clear and catching. She does her usual outstanding job with Deborah, Dwight and all the gang in Colleton County. Her sure touch with local color and her writing style combine to produce yet another top-notch, entertaining book.Highly recommended.