<p>Best-selling author Margaret Maron is a winner of the Edgar Anthony Agatha Macavity and American Mystery Awards. Her captivating mysteries feature quick-witted Deborah Knott a lawyer district judge and devout North Carolinian. At the annual Harvest Festival carnival while everyone else is playing games and having fun someone commits murder. As Deborah investigates she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous secrets begins to unravel.