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| | Margaret Maron |
 | | Maron's first novel in her Imperfect series, BOOTLEGGER'S DAUGHTER (1992), which in unprecedented fashion won all major mystery awards, the Edgar Allen Poe, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity, introduces heroine Deborah Knott, an attorney and the daughter of an infamous North Carolina bootlegger, running for election to the district court judge seat. |
 | | Maron, who grew up on a farm near Raleigh, North Carolina, lived for many years in Brooklyn, New York, which was the backdrop for her earlier series featuring, loner, Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD. |
 | | Harald, the daughter of a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and a police officer shot in the line of duty when she was only a toddler, has grown up in the shadow of a loving, if distracted mother and the mystique of a dead hero as father. |
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