80. "Hard Row" by Margaret Maron

I'd never read Margaret Maron, but I've wanted to ever since a long-ago bookstore customer raved about her books. Hard Row is mid-series, I think, so I might have a different impression if I'd started earlier. The mystery is reasonably entertaining and suspenseful, the North Carolina setting almost cliched (although, having lived in the South, I realize there's a good amount of realism within some of the cliches). The print is enormous, which made me suspect the book might be a lightweight. It is, rather--reasonably entertaining if you're looking for something to kill time, but not compelling enough to make me seek out other Maron books when there are so many far more urgent titles on my list.