Sharyn McCrumb
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English
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"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking...
Author
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[Elizabeth MacPherson novels] volume 9
Language
English
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Hospitalized for depression over her missing husband, forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is pleased to discover that insanity liberates one from polite hypocrisy. Out in the real world, Elizabeths brother, Bill, has bought a stately old mansion to use as his law office, only to find that the house comes with a charming codger-in-residence who is far too old to be a dangerous outlaw...isnt he? Meanwhile, Bills law...
4) St. Dale
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English
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A busload of unlikely travel companions, thrown together by accident, luck, or choice, begins a modern-day pilgrimage to honor the memory of seven-time NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt. With track insider Harley Claymore as tour director, the improbable pilgrims begin a journey of the NASCAR circuit. From Bristol to Daytona, they leave wreaths and heartfelt messages for "The Intimidator."
Author
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[Elizabeth MacPherson novels] volume 8
Language
English
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Anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is hired as an investigator by a Virginia law firm, defending two women in love-and-revenge murders. One woman is accused of poisoning an unfaithful husband, the other, a divorcee, of shooting her ex and his new wife.
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[Elizabeth MacPherson novels] volume 7
Language
English
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Elizabeth MacPherson returns from England to find her family in a state of disarray and tries to set things straight as her brother faces a messy lawsuit involving a home for Confederate widows, her parents threaten to divorce after twenty-five years of marriage, and a body turns up in the trunk of her brother's law partner's car. Interspersed is the parallel tale of Civil War soldier who, with a friend, confiscates a part of the Confederate treasury....
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Series
Ballad novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribners
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Randall Stargill lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm, and his four sons have come home to build him a coffin from the cache of rosewood he has hoarded for the special purpose. Meanwhile, mountain wisewoman Nora Bonesteel, Randall's sweetheart of long ago, prepares another box for his buriala small box containing human bones.
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Series
Ballad novels volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood investigates the threatening messages being sent to Peggy Muryan, a famous folksinger of the 1960s, who has returned to her hometown of Hamelin, Tennessee, in search of peace and quiet.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"In this Depression-era novel, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out her husband's term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town following his tragic death. The job is mostly symbolic except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner"--