Sharyn McCrumb
The Unquiet Grave
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Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Attorney James P. D. Gardner, confined to an asylum after an unsuccessful suicide attempt, tries the “talking cure” under the ...Read Review
Prayers the Devil Answers
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Rules matter, especially in magic, so the Dumb Supper ritual practiced by a Southern mountain community’s maidens to lure their future husbands ...Read Review
King’s Mountain
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In 1780 the United States is in danger of losing the Revolutionary War. After defeating George Washington’s army in Pennsylvania, British troops are ...Read Review
The Ballad of Tom Dooley
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Before reading Sharyn McCrumb’s new novel, all I knew of Tom Dooley came from the famous Kingston Trio song; I didn’t ...Read Review
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers
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“Sometimes in trials, they get it wrong… And newspapers get it wrong, too.” This is the essence of Sharyn McCrumb’s literary story ...Read Review
Ghost Riders
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Set during the Civil War in the mountains of North Carolina, Ghost Riders portrays a little-known and seldom-researched aspect of the war. When ...Read Review
The Songcatcher
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Accompanying one Appalachian family down through the years is a ballad first learned by Scotsman Malcolm McCourry aboard ship in 1751. Another inheritance brought ...Read Review