Margaret Maron was a mystery novelist known for books including her Sigrid Harald series.Maron began her writing career with a short story, “The Death of Me,” published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
She began writing novels and published her first, “One Coffee With,” in 1981. It was the first book in her Sigrid Harald series, focusing on an NYPD lieutenant.
Maron’s novels also included the Knott series about North Carolina Judge Deborah Knott, the daughter of a bootlegger. Writing the Knott series set in the Raleigh area, where she lived, Maron became a pioneer of the genre of regional mysteries, set outside major cities and focusing more on small-town quirks than big-city crime.
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