Home fires / Margaret Maron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maron, Margaret

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Arson.

Women judges.

North Carolina.

Knott, Deborah (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Knott, Deborah.

Knott, Deborah (Fictitious character).

Women judges--North Carolina--Fiction.

Arson--North Carolina--Fiction.

North Carolina--Race relations--Fiction.

North Carolina--Fiction.

Genre:

Mystery fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

243 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Mysterious Press, [1998]

Summary:

One place the two Souths - black and white - meet is in Judge Deborah Knott's courtroom. Busy with her reelection campaign and building a new house on land that has been in her family for generations, Deborah has both deep roots and a professional stake in her community. She's shaken when her nephew A.K. is arrested with a group of vandalizing teens at a local cemetery. Torn between her duty as a judge and her loyalty to her large, close-knit family, Deborah has to decide how far she can go to protect him. Then the first black church burns. Determined to investigate the arson in which A.K. has become a suspect, Deborah Knott is quickly swept into the dark undercurrents of prejudice, pain, and betrayal in this rural Southern county. Add to this the sudden arrival of a 1970s black activist turned public figure, the emerging secrets of an angry young woman, and the burning of two more churches, and Deborah faces a crisis that will challenge her political acumen, her detective skills, and her core beliefs.

ISBN:

0892966556

OCLC:

38752947