Have indulged myself with a reading binge catching up with more recent books by one of my favorite mystery authors,
Margaret Maron.
Read two last week and three more this week. If I tell you that I read all of
Winter Child in one day of resting and catching up my energy after the root canal--you'll have an idea how good she is. And finished up
Rituals of the Season (the next one) while recovering from having a temporary crown done yesterday and preparing for the epidural today.
Oddly enough, the dental appointment was far more traumatic than the epidural. But I saw a different doctor than the one who did the epidural last time, so fingers crossed that the thing takes soon.
For those of you who don't know Margaret Maron's writing, she is the only author to have won
the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Agatha, and the McAvity (the 4 top mystery awards) for her first novel in this series,
Bootlegger's Daughter. Her detective, Deborah Knott, a bright woman attorney, who becomes a judge by the second book. She is part of a large family in a small town in North Carolina.
Maron writes extraordinarily well with interesting plot twists, and she almost always uses some industry or event (the leaf festivals in the Great Smokies or the life of the small carnival) so that one has a feeling of learning something as well as being entertained. Margaret's superb command of language and wicked sense of humor will cause you to laugh out loud -- or in my case read numerous special passages to Tony. If you like mysteries--you will find few better than Maron.
