03215cam a2200433 i 4500 1396241032 TxAuBib 20240711120000.0 920819s1993||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 92056770 9780892964468 0892964464 TxAuBib rda Maron, Margaret, author. Southern Discomfort. Book 2 : Deb­o­rah Knot­t Mys­tery / Margaret Maron. New York, New York : Mysterious Press, [1993] ©1993. 241 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Deborah Knott Mysteries Narrated by C.J. Critt. Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death-and some old-fashioned political horse trading-have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a raucous reception that brings out every elderly aunt and cousin in the county. Unfortunately, Lu Bingham, the force behind WomanAid, is at the reception, too. Not only has she come to collect the leftovers for her daycare center, but she's also there to collect on one of Deborah's more extravagant campaign promises. Before Deborah can say, "If elected ..." she is committed to putting her muscle where her mouth was, spending weekends with an all-woman crew as the group attempts to build its first house for a needy single mom. Old stereotypes die hard. Herman Knott, one of Deborah's numerous brothers, has to be hectored and cajoled before he'll give reluctant permission for his daughter and novice electrician Annie Sue to wire the house. Nor does it help that the county building inspector is a swaggering chauvinist nit-picker who's more interested in scoring with the young women than scoring their work. Chaos erupts before the house is even half-finished. On the same rainy summer night that Herman collapses on the side of the road from an apparent heart attack, Annie Sue is found battered and half-naked in the deserted structure. Has she been raped? Who left her in that condition? And whose blood is that on Deborah's own hammer? Dwight Bryant, an old childhood friend (and a bit of good ol' boy), is a modern and efficient police detective, but it is Deborah who must judge whether dark secrets in her own family have led to murder. And if so, reveal the darker more troubling reasons why--Page 2 and 3 cover. 20240711. Knott, Deborah (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women judges Fiction. Knott, Deborah (Fictitious character.) fast Women judges. fast Detective and mystery stories. North Carolina Fiction. North Carolina. fast Mystery fiction. gsafd Detective and mystery fiction. fast Fiction. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Deborah Knott Mysteries. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0914/92056770-d.html URL