Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton Country to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of live goldfish against a cacophony of music, clacking machines and hucksterism. The air is sweetly redolent of hot grease, fried dough, grilled meats and spun sugar...and one whiff is all it takes to send Judge Deborah Knott straight back to her childhood, holding her mother's hand, ...
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Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton Country to ride the Tilt-A-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of live goldfish against a cacophony of music, clacking machines and hucksterism. The air is sweetly redolent of hot grease, fried dough, grilled meats and spun sugar...and one whiff is all it takes to send Judge Deborah Knott straight back to her childhood, holding her mother's hand, riding on the shoulders of one of her eleven brothers or clinging to her father's trouser leg, dazzled by the bright neon tubes and colourful chasing lights. Unfortunately, all is not try-your-luck and stuffed prizes this year. Murder stalks the midway, and when one gaffed game ends with a brutal death, Deborah discovers more than a body. For hidden beneath the carnival's razzle-dazzle surface is a sordid reality of danger, greed and dark secrets - devastating confidences kept concealed for almost twenty years. Now as family loyalties war with judicial obligations, Deborah must struggle to win a carny's trust...before the killer pins a bull's eye on yet another victim.
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Read any of Margaret Maron's books in this series, and you'll enjoy it tremendously! I have all her books, and they are part of a group of books in my library that I sometimes re-read because they are so well-written. So what if you already know "the story"? I read for the enjoyment of reading!
Francesca
Jul 19, 2008
Very very nice
In which Deb'rah goes to the carnival, finds a long-lost niece, a couple of murders--and loses a boyfriend in an excruciatingly embarrassing manner. You didn't care for the boyfriend anyway, and if you've read the summaries of subsequent books, you know that she's headed into the proposal you've been waiting for, even though her feelings are to be ambiguous. The title is a bit mysterious: one of the characters prefers the fast money to the "slow dollar." He gets his come-uppance. Did I suspect the murderer? Well, a little. Sometimes you just know it'll be the most unlikely person on the block.