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The cover and title of “The Bootlegger's Daughter” halted my interest. Margaret Maron is so celebrated among mystery echelons, whose series sails well past 1992; it was time to sample it. Who wouldn’t want to know why a woman was deceased beside her baby? Whose heart wouldn’t cheer on the answer, at the beseeching of this child who has grown to be eighteen? Although I believe in equal sentience, not liking to hear about pigs roasted; the mystery developed well, with southern personalities that a
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I alternately read and listened to this first novel in a series new to me. It's set in the (fairly) modern South of North Carolina, and even though it's modern, I was reminded of how quickly our modern life evolves. When she's out in the countryside pursuing the murderer, why isn't she calling her friend, the sheriff, on her cell phone to let him know where she's at? Oh, right. Amazing how much more peril you can get into in older books when you're on your own with no cell service. Anyway, it wa
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Oct 17, 2012
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*
marked it as wishlist-mystery
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Jun 22, 2012
Margaret
marked it as own-and-someday-read
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