Death's half acre

By Margaret Maron

Subjects: Women judges, Knott, deborah (fictitious character), fiction, Farmers, Women judges, fiction, Real estate development, Deborah Knott (Fictional character), Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Fiction, Deborah Knott (Fictitious character), North carolina, fiction

Description: Conflicts between family farmers and real estate developers in Colleton County lead to the murder of a controversial commissioner and pulls Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, sheriff's deputy Dwight Bryant, into the fray.