Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott Mysteries)

Judge Deborah Knott's holiday season is violently disrupted by the murders of two people, one of whom is connected to her father's bootlegging past, a situation that places Deborah's father at the head of the suspect list. Reprint."

Margaret Maron, author of Shooting at Loons and Southern Discomfort, continues her saga of change and transformation in fictional Colleton County, North Carolina, guided once again by District Court Judge Deborah Knott. Trouble comes to the county in Up Jumps the Devil with the arrival of the new interstate, which raises property values and pits neighbor against neighbor--even kin against kin. When two residents are killed after refusing to sell their land to real estate speculators, Judge Knott embarks on a quest to find the killer--or killers. The quest also forces her to take a hard look at her assumptions about her fellow townspeople and herself.