Margaret Maron

The recorded working language is English and Italian. The field of work recorded is detective fiction and detective literature. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are crime. Distinctions recorded are Edgar Awards, Anthony Award for Best Novel, Agatha Award for Best Short Story and Macavity Awards.

• Birth Name — Margaret Brown • Born — 25 August 1938 • Birthplace — Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. • Died — 23 February 2021 • Place of death — Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. • Occupation — Novelist • Language — English • Period — 1981–2021 • Genre — Mystery • Notable Works — Deborah Knott series, Sigrid Harald series • Children — 1 • Website — http: margaretmaron.com

Maron was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and grew up in central Johnston County; she had also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state in 1972. Maron died of complications from a stroke.

Maron was the author of numerous short stories and more than 20 mystery novels. One series of novels features Sigrid Harald, a loner lieutenant in the NYPD whose policeman father was killed in the line of duty when she was a toddler (The Right Jack: a Sigrid Harald Mystery). Another series follows the adventures of Judge Deborah Knott, attorney and daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger. Her works have been translated into a dozen languages and are on the reading lists of many courses in contemporary Southern literature, as well as Crime and Mystery literature courses.

Maron was a founding member and past president of Sisters in Crime and of the American Crime Writers' League, and a director on the national board for Mystery Writers of America. She was a keynote speaker at the Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave in 2004.

• Bootlegger's Daughter, 1992 • Southern Discomfort, 1993 • Shooting at Loons, 1994 • Up Jumps the Devil, 1996 • Killer Market, 1997 • Home Fires, 1998 • Storm Track, 2000 • Uncommon Clay, 2001 • Slow Dollar, 2002 • High Country Fall, 2004 • Rituals of the Season, 2005 • Winter's Child, 2006 • Hard Row, 2007 • Death’s Half-Acre, 2008 • Sand Sharks, 2009 • Christmas Mourning, 2010 • Three-Day Town, 2011 (cross-over with Sigrid Harald) • The Buzzard Table, 2012 • Designated Daughters, 2014 • Long Upon the Land, 2015

• One Coffee With, 1981 • Death of a Butterfly, 1984 • Death in Blue Folders, 1985 • The Right Jack, 1987 • Baby Doll Games, 1988 • Corpus Christmas, 1989 • Past Imperfect, 1991 • Fugitive Colors, 1995 • Take Out, 2017

Novels • Bloody Kin, 1985 (prequel to Judge Deborah Knott series; First "Colleton County" book) • Last Lessons of Summer, 2003

• Title — Contents — Publication Date — Publisher • Shoveling Smoke — 1997 — Crippen & Landru • Suitable for Hanging — The Early Retirement of Mario Colletti Devil's Island To Hide a Tree Croquet's Summer "That Married Dear Old Dad" Craquelure Lost and Found Shaggy Dog No, I'm Not Jane Marple, But Since You Ask The Stupid Pet Trick Roman's Holiday Half of Something Growth Marks Virgo in Sapphires The Third Element What's in a Name Mixed Blessings Till 3:45 The Choice The Dog that Didn't Bark — 2004 — Crippen & Landru • Crimes By Moonlight — Small Change — 2010 — Berkley Publishing (ebook)