With a steamy Southern plot and a sassy new heroine, this Edgar Award winning book debuts an exceptional new series. Attorney Deborah Knott is North Carolina’s response to V.We. Warshawski, a legal sleuth using a knack for sniffing out one of the most baffling offences. Deborah has simply carried out the unthinkable-entered the warmed race for judge of old-boy-ruled Colleton State. The only feminine candidate, she’s occupied reeling in voters and providing campaign speeches. There couldn’t be considered a worse period for Gayle Whitehead to beg Deborah to investigate the 18-year-old, unsolved murder of Gayle’s mom, Janie. Gayle desires the busy attorney to poke around for any new clues the police may have skipped all these years. Unlikely, thinks Deborah; until she discovers that not absolutely all the details of Janie’s case managed to get out of confidential police files. Filled with the patter of Southern voices and populated with a solid of colorful personas, Bootlegger’s Child expertly unwinds a funny, cunningly-crafted tale of mystery and deceit in North Carolina’s backwoods.