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Storm Track
Written by Margaret Maron
Narrated by C. J. Critt
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Best-selling author Margaret Maron creates entertaining mysteries filled with warm southern charm, colorful down-home characters, and smoldering grudges. In Storm Track, swirling dark clouds of illicit affairs and brutal murder threaten Colleton County, North Carolina. No one worries much about the scantily clad woman found strangled in the Orchid Motel-she must be a tourist who brought along her own problems. But when the victim turns out to be the wife of one of Colleton County's up-and-coming lawyers, the news comes as a thunderclap. People begin looking suspiciously among themselves for the culprit, and Judge Deborah Knott learns her own handsome cousin possesses a mighty powerful motive. While Deborah searches for the vicious killer, a deadly hurricane rages up the Carolina coast, bringing destruction and its own kind of justice. Winner of the Edgar and Agatha Awards, Margaret Maron bases this series on her life in rural North Carolina. Narrator C.J. Critt's lilting performance captures both the crackling wit and the heightening suspense.
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Reviews for Storm Track
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not a lot can ruin the serenity of the lazy, hazy August rhythms of Collection County, North Carolina. Judge Deborah Knott, once again running for election, can count on a round of pleasant softball games, barbecues, and church picnics. But now a hurricane named Fran is gearing up offshore and it looks like the eye of the storm could blow straight through the county. Even worse, the local, scandalous murder of a prominent lawyer's promiscuous wife has shaken up the entire community. As the storm picks up speed, the county gears up with batteries and bottled water -- and a determined killer finds a perfect time to strike again.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Synopsis: There is a hurricane coming and people are rather uncomfortable waiting to see if it will really hit the area. In the meantime life goes on as usual and Deborah is busy playing baseball with a bunch of lawyers and policemen. Nearby, a married woman is murdered. Who is the culprit? Is it the husband or one of the 3 other men she's bedding, including one of Deborah's cousins?Review: One of her better books with a good story line and some side tales that are every bit as intriguing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hurricane on the way; let's have a hurricane party at dad's house. Fran is more hurricane than usual and is compounded by murder in a motel. The local loose lady is strangled with a stocking as she awaits her current date. Many suspects, some related to Deborah, some suspicions carom about before she sorts it out. Another look at life in NC by an excellent storyteller.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"Storms are on the horizon for those in Dobbs and the surrounding countryside." THat tagline is a pale description of what the actual story, or more specifically stories, are. There seem like quite a few stories actually. There's the murder of a young woman, there's the usual Kidd/Deb storyline, an interseting storyline with Reverand Freeman and his family, and, of course, there's the story of the literal storm, Hurricane Fran.Of course, it's a novel so every storyline fits into the grand puzzle that is "Storm Track".And ironically, because I'm not a great fan of any natural disaster, from Hurricane to Earthquake, my favorite part of the story was the storm and its description. And the author fit the storm in with the rest of the mystery very, very well (and not just as a simple distraction to stall the conclusion of the mystery).There was also more Dwight than Kidd and in addition to seeing more of Deb's cousin Reid, there was a whole lot of family interaction, which Maron is amazing at writing. Definitely a five star novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good summer reading, especially during hurricane season.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still enjoying this series. Judge Deborah Knott doesn't do much court work in this one - but her family and friends are embroiled in more drama! A lawyer who occasionally appears in Deborah's court is hit with a tragedy when his wife is found dead in a local motel, wearing black lace and little else.
Suspects abound as it is uncovered that said wife liked to play around, with a lot of different men, including cousin Reid.
Deborah and Reid work together to prove that Reid didn't kill her - but Deborah is also working with Dwight because as a lawman he can actually get the proof.
Weaving throughout the story is the threat of a hurricane. Normal hurricanes don't go as far inland in North Carolina as where the Knott clan lives, but it isn't unheard of, and this one sounds like it will be one of those that is going to try and make life miserable for everyone.
It must have been a good book, I devoured it! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/57th in the Judge Deborah Knott series set in North Carolina.It’s hurricane season, and the residents of Colleton County are nervously preparing for a potentially damaging storm. One, however—Stan Freeman, son of the black minister, Revered Ralph Freeman, whom we’ve met in Home Fires, is hoping that a Big One will land so that he can track it for his science project. he gets his wish with Hurricane Fran.Meantime, life goes on as usual, and suddenly the community is presented with the murder of a wife who has long been known for her extra-marital activities. Another murder occurs, and as the monster storm Hurricane Fran approaches land, Deborah and her family are involved in a dramatic nighttime rescue of Freeman’s wife.Racial wariness also makes an appearance in this story, with an insight on how hostility towards whites still plays out in the black community.This is an exciting story, well told by Maron who writes from her own experience with Hurricane Fran in 2002. She expertly weaves a simple but sturdy plot with the storm’s approach to provide a very effective combination. Her description of Fran’s aftermath is by now familiar to us, after the devastation of Katrina and the hurricane season of 2008 and its effects on Galveston in particular.After stories set in other locales, Maron returns with her comfortable stable of recurring characters, including Deborah’s vast family, and friends such as Portland and Avery Brewer. As usual, she captures the rhythm and idiosyncracies of North Carolina speech perfectly, lending an easy, fluid style to her narration; her dialogue is especially good. She excels in wryly funny overheard conversation.One of the best in the series. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eleven year-old Stan Freeman is tracking hurricanes for his sixth grade science project, secretly hoping a big one will come. It looks like he will get his wish, Hurricane Fran is growing and coming and she's foreshadowing the storm brewing in the mind of a killer, and like the hurricane, the townsfolk are in his path.Judge Deborah Knott, youngest of 12 children-- and the only girl--has romance on her mind , until the body of Lynn Bullock is found in the Orchid Motel, wearing black lace underwear. Suspects include several local men as well as the deceased's attorney husband, Jason, and Deborah's womanizing cousin Reid Stephenson. But Deborah saw all of these men playing softball at the time of themurder. The judge helps to investigate the crime but time is running out as thehurricane's and the killer's rage builds.Margaret Maron immerses the reader in the down-home, inbred world of the rural South, where intertwined family histories are common knowledge and some old-timers, like Deborah's unrepentant bootlegger father, still live by obsolete customs. One of Maron's many skills is her ability to weave into her story the social changes coming to this region with the speed of that hurricane.