Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn Mccrumb

Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn Mccrumb

The New York Times Bestseller

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.

Sharyn McCrumb is a New York Times bestselling author noted for her Appalachian Ballad novels such as The Ballad of Frankie Silver, She Walks These Hills, and The Ballad of Tom Dooley. The East Tennessee Historical Society's Wilma Dykeman Prize for Literature and the Audie Award for Outstanding Recorded Book went to Ghost Riders. She was a featured author at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. In 2006, she was named a Virginia Woman of History for Literature Achievement by the White House, and the Library of Virginia named her a Virginia Woman of History for Literature Achievement in 2008. Chowan University in North Carolina gave her the Mary Frances Hobson Award for Southern Writing in 2014.

She is based in Roanoke, Virginia, where she writes. Kirkus Reviews Popular North Carolina author McCrumb (The Songcatcher, etc.) returns with another epic song of a novel, this time a multi-tiered Civil War saga with an otherworldly twist that connects past and present. Publishers Weekly is a publication dedicated to the publishing industry.