Ballad #5
St. Martin's Griffin
April 2013
On Sale: March 26, 2013
352 pages ISBN: 031238887X EAN: 9780312388874 Kindle: B008RLTYEM Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Set in the Appalachian wilderness and blending legends and
folklore with high suspense, this stellar novel,
The Ballad of Frankie Silver, is considered
one of McCrumb’s crowning achievements.
In 1833
Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl
convicted of murder in Burke County, North
Carolina. Through a detailed investigation, the local
sheriff, and soon all the townsfolk, discover reason to
question her guilt---but the wheels of justice were
mercilessly unstoppable, and she was hanged.
Now, more than a century later, another woman is
convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee. Her
life is in the hands of Spencer Arrowood, a man who begins
to discover that the convictions of these two women have
deep and haunting parallels. Although Frankie’s fate
cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of
another innocent woman.
In a voice that could only be
Sharyn McCrumb’s, the worlds of these two murders, these two
women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical
novel—and characters, generations, and history are
breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas
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