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    Sand Sharks
    Sand Sharks
    Sand Sharks
    Audiobook8 hours

    Sand Sharks

    Written by Margaret Maron

    Narrated by C.J. Critt

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Margaret Maron continues her best-selling Deborah Knott series with Sand Sharks-an "outstanding . neat mystery that [is] highly recommended" (Library Journal, starred review). Judge Deborah's hopes for relaxation at a seaside judicial conference are dashed when she stumbles upon the murdered body of a colleague. And when more judges turn up dead, Deborah fears she could be next.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 16, 2009
    ISBN9781440760501
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    • 4/5
      When Judge Deborah Knott travels to Wrightsville Beach 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 relaxing trip to the seaside soon transforms into a harrowing experience, and she must summon all of her strength and investigative expertise to track down the culprit before she becomes the next victim.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Deborah is going to a conference while Dwight and his son are gone to take care of disposing of the boy's mother's house. Deborah finds a dead body and is again embroiled in a murder. This time it's a judge who was not only dishonest but disingenuous, as well.Review: This was fun to read and had a decent ending with the bad guy getting caught.
    • 4/5
      About par for this series. Much about randy judges at a conference on the beach. Dwight's away and Deb'rah is actually asked to assist in the local investigation into a murder and an assault on two of the Jurist participants
    • 4/5
      The Umpteenth entry in the Judge Deborah Knott series, and it was a pretty good one, set this time in a beach-y town where a semi-annual conference of judges is taking place. Unfortunately at least one of their Honors won't be around to attend the next one. Nobody is terribly upset that he's gone, but of course they need to find out who and why. I love Deborah, and I hope I'm not getting burned out on these, but I did have a few quibbles with this one. First of all, Maron broke a cardinal rule, at least twice---two little bits of business tucked into the story line gave me that "this is gonna matter later" feeling, but one was never mentioned again and the other just remained an ongoing bit of business with no significance whatsoever. You know that gun over the mantel in Act One has to be fired before the play is over, right Margaret? Oh, well... Second of all, I've never attended a big ole conference of any kind, but the district judges of North Carolina seemed to have an awful lot of unscheduled time on their hands at this one. Days of it, not just a free afternoon set aside for fun. I don't mean to put anyone off this series; it's been great reading, and I'm still keen to follow Deb'rah as she goes. If you read in order and get this far, you can make up your own mind anyway.Reviewed August 2016
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed listening to this audiobook. I'm a sucker for books set in North Carolina! I'm not sure that this is my favorite Margaret Maron book, but is was a good listen over the last few days. I'd recommend it, especially for readers/listeners familiar with the Wilmington area.
    • 4/5
      The annual conference for NC district judges, which meets in Wrightsville Beach, is a good excuse for partying and politicking. At least, for those who can resist the beach and many seem to have come early for that purpose.The first night of the weekend ends in the murder of a crooked judge and the obvious suspects are all judges. When a second judge is the victim of an intentional hit and run, things get edgy.
    • 4/5
      Judge Deborah Knott is attending a judges conference when she finds one of the judges dead. Naturally she has to get involved in the investigation, mostly to find out if the killer is one of her colleagues or friends.

      There is a multitude of possible killers, the victim was not well liked either by other judges, attorneys and by people who appeared in his courtroom or were affected by decisions in his courtroom.

      Maron is an excellent author who is so good at drawing her characters that even with a dozen or more possible suspects you don't get them confused or lose track of them. That is a sign of someone who writes lives not just stories. She is also so very good at making a mystery engaging while not losing track of threads or points in the story.

      Looking forward to the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      New York Times bestselling Author, Margaret Maron delivers again! Deborah Knott is no stranger to crime Being a Judge, she is always subjected to its depravity. Still, when she found the body of a coworker dangling it shook her. There are more people with a grudge against murdered Judge Jeffreys than the police could possibly interrogate. The suspect list includes everyone from attorneys to fellow judges and even a television heartthrob!Deborah’s stress is added to by her personal life. Newly married and a stepson who has just lost his mother in a violent crime, her attention is mainly focused on attending to the men in her life. She alternately butts heads with her stepson and wanting to coddle him so his world will stop spinning out of control. The conference was supposed to be a reprieve from the stress of her life, but instead she is thrown into the middle of a murder investigation. Deborah is hesitant to give all the information she has to the police because it implicates some friends that she knows can’t be involved, but the more she finds out the more she realizes she is surrounded by people who could be involved!An intriguing, twisted tale that keeps you guessing and enthralled. You won’t want to put this book down!Reviewed by Ashley Wintters for Suspense Magazine
    • 3/5
      Great book. Margaret maron always delivers a great story. Deborah Knott is always a hit!
    • 2/5
      The charm of Maron's Deborah Knott series...and they are charming at times...is when they are set in the tobacco fields of North Carolina and she gives us a real flavor of the place. When Deborah wanders off to other climes, they become generic and rapidly forgettable.
    • 5/5
      One of my favorite authors and she had me again... I can never figure out who did it, and I do enjoy her books because of this. The good writing and the local flavor she brings to her southern mysteries. Enjoy!
    • 5/5
      This is a book by one of my favorite authors. The main character is attending a conference and finds a body!
    • 5/5
      To start, any book that references Emily Proctor (actress, CSI: Miami among other things, such as Lana Lang on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) is a good book. But even without that reference it was an amazing book. After the last few Knott series books focused very much on Deborah's family, both her newly formed and her gigantic original family it was refreshing to get a book about her alone.This book also seemed to pull together threads of many of the other books (sorta made me want to go back and re-read them too). It was a little weird to have an asterisk and a 'see this title for the whole story', but it wasn't horribly distracting because you see it a lot in comic books and I've read my share of Trade Paperbacks.One thing that was a bit more distracting was when all of a sudden the chapters had subtitles of other characters (I think she only did it for two) I forget if she's done that before and it worked okay or not, but the first time I saw it, it threw me for a second.On the whole it was a great book, well plotted, awesome characters, witty dialog. I'm just oh so very sad that it had to end and I have to wait so long for another one.
    • 4/5
      Excellent mystery. Very well-plotted. Killer was not immediately obvious. Knott's family and husband did not appear much in this installment which was OK.
    • 3/5
      Review by my mother:Sand Sharks is the newest in the Margaret Maron series based on the very likeable, youthful, female judge Deborah Knott. In this novel Deborah is attending a judges’ conference on the shore of North Carolina away from her home near Raleigh, NC. The interaction with her fellow judges and the descriptions of the coastal area of NC were very interesting, but this book was not as good as others in the series. In past books Deborah has been so certain that her marriage to Dwight is absolutely right that her doubts in this book seem out of character for her. There were quite a few characters form past stories, and it seemed that some of this story was just tying in loose threads from the past. The mystery lacked adequate clues for the dedicated reader to figure out who the murderer was and why the crime was committed. Do read it if you like the series. There were quite a few sharks.
    • 3/5
      I still miss Margaret Maron’s series character Sigrid Haraldson. But her Deborah Knott series has been so successful that it seems unlikely that Maron will ever leave North Carolina for New York, or step off the bench and back into the police station.Fortunately, the Judge Knott series remains fun to read, if a tad too cozy for my taste. I normally zip through these books in about a day, just to catch up with Deborah, her husband, her stepson, her 11 brothers and her father, a former bootlegger. They’re also interesting books to read in terms of technique, because Maron pulls off some stunts that most mystery writers couldn’t get away with, such as switching the point of view or changing voice (from first person to third and back again). Without using these tricks, Maron couldn’t play fair with her audience about solving the mystery (though she still doesn’t manage it in these two books, in my opinion); and she couldn’t have several parallel stories playing out at once. A more skillful writer would probably be able to manage all that while staying in a single character’s point of view and voice, but here the changes simply seem to make the books feel all the more comfortable and unchallenging – good for a quick read, but not intended to make the reader think too much.Death's Half Acre tells the story of a county commissioner who tends to favor developers who are quickly despoiling the countryside with ticky-tacky houses, and to have a little too much money at her disposal. Unless she’s milking her cleaning business of profits and failing to pay what she’s supposed to pay to her ex-husband or taking bribes, there doesn’t seem to be any way she could afford to pay cash for her new house. When she is murdered, it looks as if she might also be engaged in blackmail. But who was her victim, if there was one? And who killed her?The real treat of Death's Half Acre, though, is the parallel mystery we get involving Deborah’s father, Kezzie. In the first chapter, a man approaches Kezzie Knott to ask his help in preventing his grandmother from giving away her land to an apparently corrupt preacher. We’ve already seen this misogynist at work in the prologue, when he forces his wife to perform a distasteful act in front of his entire congregation on Easter Sunday. So we want to see what Kezzie will get up to, and his machinations don’t disappoint.Deborah gets into more trouble than she should in this book, and nearly pays a high price for it. Her motive for failing to go to the police with key evidence seems to me rather weak, but that sometimes happens in cozies. Still, one would think a judge would have more sense.Deborah seems to have her head on a bit straighter in Sand Sharks, which takes place oceanside during a judges’ conference. The plot here is a bit tighter than in Death's Half Acre, but the mystery of who did the killing is a lot less fair. The real joy of this book is watching Deborah interact with her fellow judges, including Will Blackstone, who readers might remember from an earlier book (I sure did, and I was chuckling almost from the moment he made his first appearance as a result). I enjoyed the war stories the judges tell one another about their work, the description of the topics at the conference, and the camaraderie the judges share. Perhaps it’s because I’m a lawyer and have been to similar conferences myself, but this just felt comfortable and right.I read Maron’s books with the expectation that I’ll get a pleasant couple of hours out of them, and that expectation is always met. There is absolutely no challenge here, not even much of a challenge to use my imagination. But they’re fun. One can’t complain about that.
    • 4/5
      This is the sixteenth in the excellent Deborah Knott series by Margaret Maron, about a judge in North Carolina who has a large and interesting family. In this book, Deborah is at Wrightsville Beach for an annual convention of state judges. One of the judges who is known for being lazy and incompetent is murdered.A good book in an excellent series. Not my favorite of the series, but I did enjoy it.
    • 4/5
      This is an entertaining murder mystery about an amateur detective who happens to be a trial court judge. The murder happens at an annual convention for the judges at a seaside resort. The detective judge happens to find the body of another judge who has been murdered. It turns out that the murdered judge was corrupt and lazy. A couple of his incompetent rulings caused others harm, including some of the other judges at the convention. This means there's several suyspects among the judges. The identity is reveal in the last chapter, which is full of suspense and action. This is an above-average mystery.
    • 4/5
      In this, the 15th book in the series, Judge Deborah Knott is off to a judicial conference with her North Carolina peers in Wrightsville Beach. She is excited to be going because it is not only a chance to reconnect with some of her friends and fellow judges, bone up on some new aspects of legislation that effects her decisions on the bench but it will also allow Deborah a few days break from her new husband and stepson. Not that she doesn't love them both, but neither a new marriage or her new role as a mom are without a few difficulties to be worked out.And then also, who doesn't love a conference that will be held in a lovely hotel on a beautiful beach. That is until the body of one of the judges is found floating in the Cape Fear River near a popular restaurant where many of the conference goers were dining. The person that discovers the body is none other than Deborah and some of the major suspects turn out to be people she has know or worked with for years. But of course, that will not stop her from getting in the thick of the investigation, with the police even asking for her help in some aspects of the investigation. Which may end up making her another potential victim.This is the first one of Ms. Maron's book that I have read but I am a sucker for a good mystery and then set that mystery by the ocean and you have me as a reader! And this is a good mystery. I did not figure out who the murderer was and yet, when the killer's identity was revealed, I had to admit that the clues were all there. Always a good sign, because I like my mystery writers to be fair. I also want my mystery writers to create smart, thinking characters and Judge Knott is that. No fumbling, damsel in distress here, but a female character who is smart and well respected in her professional life, at a good place in her personal life and yet up for a little adventure in solving a mystery. And capable of handling some adventure.This may be the first of the Judge Knott's series that I have read, but I very much doubt it will be my last. I am anxious to explore some of the other North Carolina settings, starting with the interesting sounding "Bootlegger's Daughter". Sand Sharks is an interesting story, a pretty fast read, with a very good main character that makes a good introduction to what appears to be an entertaining series.
    • 4/5
      Maron takes Judge Deborah Knott off her home turf down to the seaside town of Wilmington, NC for a judge's conference in this installment of the series. There's something about removing a series from its home turf that can lead to a weaker than usual story. I think that's what has happened in this case. Add to that the fact that her new husband Dwight is off at a law enforcement of his own. While that may be convenient, phone conversations between lovers are kind of boring for those listening or reading. Nonetheless, it's not a bad book, just not one of the better ones of the series. If you have not read any of the other books, I would not recommend starting here. If you are a series fan, by all means, do not miss it.