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RITUALS OF THE SEASON
by Margaret Maron
Mysterious Press, August 2005
320 pages
$23.95
ISBN: 0892968095


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Judge Deborah Knott's wedding to Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant is less than two weeks away and she is finally beginning to get into a wedding frame of mind. On December 10, one of the assistant DAs has a late doctor's appointment, so Deborah adjourns court early and heads for a party outlet to look for inexpensive wedding favors.

She gets caught up in the shopping thing and is very late arriving back at Dwight's apartment. He is frantic. Deborah had been caught in a traffic jam and Dwight tells her that the jam had been caused by ADA Tracy Johnson having crashed on the highway. Tracy is dead. She was the ADA who left early that day to take her adopted baby to the doctor.

The autopsy reveals that Tracy had been shot. The crash also kills the baby. Deborah had known Tracy ever since they were opponents in court, when Tracy was a prosecutor and Deborah a defense attorney. Her death, and that of the baby, saddens everyone, and makes Dwight more protective of Deborah.

The next two weeks are fully planned, but this murder investigation, of course, takes precedence, so both Knott and Bryant are fully occupied with their respective professions and wedding preparations, including dinners given by various professional groups for the couple.

A visit with Judge Knott and her extended and extensive family is like a visit back home (if you come from Colleton County, North Carolina) Even though she is getting married just before Christmas, she and Dwight will not go on a honeymoon, since Christmas is traditionally spent with the family at the farm.

The book has a genealogy chart in the beginning, so those who have not read the ten preceding novels in the series will not be lost. For a good story with interesting characters and well-defined venues , Maron always satisfies. This book is no exception.

Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, August 2005

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