Bloody Kin [Mass Market Paperback]

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• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Mysterious Press (1985)
• ASIN: B001E2Z1GQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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MARGARET MARON is the author of twenty-seven novels and two collections of short stories. Winner of several major American awards for mysteries (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity), her works are on the reading lists of various courses in contemporary Southern literature and have been translated into 15 languages. She has served as president of Sisters in Crime, the American Crime Writers League, and Mystery Writers of America. Visit her at www.MargaretMaron.com.

A native Tar Heel, she still lives on her family's century farm a few miles southeast of Raleigh, the setting for Bootlegger's Daughter, which is numbered among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 2004, she received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for best North Carolina novel of the year; and in 2008, the North Carolina Award for Literature, the state's highest civilian honor. Her mystery novels feature District Court Judge Deborah Knott and are the pegs upon which she hangs her love and concern for the state.

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52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody Kin is right!, August 30, 2000

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Bettye McKee (Fort Smith, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bloody Kin (Mass Market Paperback)

Margaret Maron is a great storyteller, and although she has written a series based in New York, North Carolina appears to be where her heart is. Although Deborah Knott does not appear in "Bloody Kin," we get a different, more family-oriented view of Dwight Bryant, so we feel that we are on familiar ground. Our heroine, Kate, is portrayed as a woman determined to make a place for herself in a strange land after her husband, Jake, is killed, and she does so admirably. Jake's family members, however, the few that are still alive, are not helpful in this regard. The child is a welcome ray of sunshine in an otherwise dismal situation, and Kate establishes a wonderful rapport with her. Another reviewer was apparently horrified that Kate smoked during her pregnancy; on the other hand, the story takes place in the very heart of tobacco country, and I was more impressed by how little she smoked. As a story that stands apart from both the Sigrid Harrald series and the Deborah Knott stories, "Bloody Kin" is a fine read.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Transition from New York to North Carolina, January 13, 2010

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Nash Black "Troubadour" (Jamestown, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bloody Kin (Mass Market Paperback)

BLOODY KIN is a transition novel as Margaret Maron moves from New York to North Carolina. It gives the reader a look at Dwight Bryant and his family before the opening of the Deborah Knott series.

An excellent read, as Kate Honeycutt moves from New York to live on the farm owned by her deceased husband, Jake. His great-uncle is worried that Kate will evict him from the only home he has ever know and makes her new living arrangements as difficult as possible.

But Jake's death was not an accident as Kate soon learns after discovering the body of one of Jake's war buddies in the cellar of the building she plans to use as a studio. Now someone wants Kate dead before Dwight Bryant can discover the truth behind the killings.

Nash Black, author of WRITING AS A SMALL BUSINESS.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Even without Judge Knott, Colleton County is Dangerous, July 24, 2000

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Moe811 (New York USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bloody Kin (Mass Market Paperback)

In this novel, the main characters are not the Knott family, but Dwight is still around to solve the mystery. Kate inherits her husband's homeplace after his murder, but his murder isn't the only murder or the only mystery.