Southern Discomfort

De: Margaret Maron

Narrado por: C.J. Critt

The governor of North Carolina has appointed Deborah to a judicial seat in the District Court Division. On her weekends, the fledgling judge has been helping an all-woman building crew complete a home for a needy single mother. Her attempts to gain positive P.R. go awry when her niece is found battered and half-naked in the partially completed home, with Deborah's own bloody hammer lying nearby.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Excellent...a thriller that simply oozes southern charm and atmosphere". (Booklist)

S L O W

I look for books about the south and hung in on this story though the end only because I very much like the performer. Character development was just not there and the plot was somewhat ordinary. Skip this one.

A look inside a southern family

The book is a perceptive, gently satirical look at human behavior during a period of social change besides being a suspenseful mystery. Deborah Knott has survived her first week on the bench as a judge. On the weekend she is helping the local women’s shelter build a new house. As the story progresses she finds her niece Annie Sue bruised and unconscious at the building site, the building inspector dead, the hammer Deborah had been using nearby and her brother, Annie Sue’s father, collapsed nearby in his truck. Turns out he has arsenic poisoning, who did it and why and is there anyone else.

The story is well written, the plot is twisting with lots of suspense and family interaction. Maron provides a surprise ending to the story. The author also packs a social history as well as travelogue information into the story. C. J. Critt does a good job narrating the story.

Creates time and place

As with her other books, the plot is on the thin side, but the text and narration combine perfectly to create "almost" rural North Carolina.

Love this series and I am working my way

through all of them. Well written, well narrated. I borrowed the first one from my library to test the series. I am now on book 8 :)

Different, but NO PEPSI below Mason Dixon line

This was a somewhat different book. I almost had to turn it off during the opening, but it’s OK, you can hang with it. I also didn’t particularly like the part about animals, but all in all it was OK.
I love a good southern book and she does a very good job of descriptions and such but the reader is excellent in her accent. Thankfully not overdone.
But the reason I took the time to write this because it kept driving me crazy when they said people drink Pepsi. This is where blasphemy or the mark of a rebel which should have been pointed out. Sorry for ending the sentence with a preposition