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    Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
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    Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

    Written by Sharyn McCrumb

    Narrated by 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 1993
    ISBN9781436160179
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    Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
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    Sharyn McCrumb

    Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

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    • 4/5
      I just started reading Sharyn McCrumb' s Appalachian books and I find myself emerged in them. These are her people and she does a beautiful job of telling their story. It's not a story of the "dumb hillbilly" , it's a story of their daily struggle to survive in a world that in some ways has left them behind. These are such proud people. Proud of their mountains, their families and communities and their Irish-Scott- Welch heritage. An old woman has the "sight", a young man kills but for a reason that we can't imagine, the preacher's wife finds her place and her reason for being with this community. It's just an extremely good read.
    • 4/5
      Substance: A novel with a mystery in it. Read for the view of life in Appalachia. The red herring doesn't show up until the middle of the book, and the "clues" just prior to the disclosure of the mystery. Nora Bonesteel's visions are more explicit and more integral than some of the books in the series.The plot reminds me of why I quit reading "Reader's Digest" in the 1080s: all the memes du jour are here.Style: Lyrical, probably transmitting personal anecdotes.NOTES: p. 116: the anecdote about a student and his family reacting to Shakespeare echoes others I have read; one source claims that the dialect of that region reproduces Elizabethan English better than anywhere in the world (or did some decades ago);p. 140: c'mon - not even Appalachian high schools still use foot-lights!p. 148: the polluted river turns out to be well-known, but some of the characters act like they are the first to discover it; some questions left hanging, as part of the "evil corporation" meme of the time.p. 188: Scots stay after 1776; conflict with the rest of the south over slavery.p. 285: making tough calls - you can't save everyone all the time;p. 300: God manipulating life, or just using circumstances for the best?
    • 4/5
      This book is quite different from most mysteries in that the perpetrator of the crime is known right from the beginning. But what the book is about is about a family in trouble, and we watch the steady decline throughout the book. All of the major occurences (and believe me there are a lot of them) are connected with an old lady soothsayer's visions. There is plenty of suspense throughout the whole book, and it led me on and kept me engrossed until the catastrophic ending. Ms. McCrumb is a formidable author, and this book (the second in her Appalachian series) is complex, absorbing and quite magical.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book far more than I expected. I had read McCrumb's first book (Bimbos of the Death Sun), which I thought was drivel (despite winning one of the major Mystery awards), and was done with her, but found the book in my possession. Took awhile to get to. Anyway, this book was entirely different in tone. It's not a traditional mystery in the sense of crime committed with dogged investigation by grizzled detective/obsessive spare-time other-interested-party. The story begins with the introduction of Laura Bruce, new wife of the pastor of Hamelin, TN, being called to the scene of a grisly murder. A mother and father and youngest son have been shot and killed by the oldest son, who then killed himself. Two other siblings have been left behind, and Laura Bruce has been called to tend to them. The murder underlies everything else, but the book continues with several additional tragic and interrelated developments in the town until the truth behind the initial tragedy is revealed. This book is part of the "Ballad" series by Ms. McCrumb, and beautifully details the traditions and brink-of-poverty lifestyle experienced by so many in the Tennessee backhills. The book is very well written and intricately plotted and detailed, and I will look for additional books by Ms. McCrumb.
    • 4/5
      Don't remember this much, Read it a long time ago but I know I liked it and wanted to read more by this author. Didn't get around to it. Although reading the summary, it surely sounds like a very depressing book..