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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

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by Sharyn McCrumb
Sally Darling
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Edgar and Macavity Award-winning author Sharyn McCrumb transports you to legend-rich Appalachia with her suspense-packed Ballad series. In The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, a young minister's wife struggles to understand a sudden, unexplained death. Laura Bryce has lived in the small east Tennessee community such a short time that she still feels like an outsider. But when there is violence on the Underhill farm, the sheriff calls on her to represent the church. He will handle the bodies, but she must comfort the bereaved. However, the unspeakable carnage she confronts in the farmhouse will push her down a rocky pathway of danger and heartache. Sharyn McCrumb, compared by critics to William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Eudora Welty, creates evocative tales and strong, complex characters. Narrator Sally Darling provides the perfect voice for the beleaguered but resilient people who inhabit the hills and valleys of Appalachia.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Ballad

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 10, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781449875480
      • File size: 305124 KB
      • Duration: 10:35:40

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If your preferred listening is novels, unabridged and unadorned--The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter is an excellent addition to Recorded Books' collection of outstanding mystery novels. Set in Tennessee's Appalachia, this is a richly textured tale of dark family secrets and violent death. Sally Darling nicely captures the regional flavor; she also provides the listener with a credible and ultimately charming vocal presence as the "teller of the tale." This is especially beneficial since about ninety percent of the text consists of narrative or descriptive passages. B.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 30, 1992
      Revisiting some of the characters from If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, Edgar Award winner McCrumb weaves Appalachian folklore and death, in natural and unnatural forms, into a story that meanders like a mountain stream through the hills of east Tennessee before rushing to its turbulent conclusion. Wake County Sheriff Spencer Arrowood asks Laura Bruce, wife of the local Baptist minister, who is now an Army chaplain stationed overseas, to comfort the bereaved at the scene of a bloody murder. Ret. Maj. Paul Underhill, his wife and two of his four children are dead, shot apparently by one of the sons, who took his own life after killing the others. Laura serves as advocate for the surviving children, Maggie and Mark, who want to remain in the house so they can continue going to classes at the local high school. But when deputy Joe LeDonne discovers that the two have disinterred their father's body from its grave, he wants to know what really happened on the night of the shooting. Concurrently, 38-year-old Laura is told she is pregnant and local farmer Tavy Annis is diagnosed with cancer, brought on by a chemical spill in the Little Dove River. These plots twine around the knowledge of an old mountain seer whose gift adds to the haunting quality of the story and to its chilling suspense. Mystery Guild selection.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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