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, TheΒ Ballad of Frankie Silver,Β is considered one of McCrumbβs crowning achievements.
In 1833 Frankie Silver was an eighteen-year-old girl convictedΒ of murder inΒ Burke County, North Carolina.Β 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.Β
Now, more than a century later, another woman is convicted of murder in the lush hills of Tennessee.Β 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.Β Although Frankieβs fate cannot be changed, there is still time to alter the fate of another innocent woman.
In a voice that could only be Sharyn McCrumbβs, the worlds of these two murders, these two women, intersect in this densely plotted and lyrical novelβand characters, generations, and history are breathlessly painted against an Appalachian canvas
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