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Literature & Fiction
A sci-fi convention gets a dose of true crime in this Edgar Award-winning mystery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Ballad novels. When Virginia Tech professor James Owen Mega wrote a fictional account of his... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history -- from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the... See More
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... See More
Historical Fiction
In Depression-era Appalachia, a desperate sheriff's widow takes on her late husband's job and discovers that a prayer the devil answers comes at a terrible price. The year is 1936 and society provides no safety net for... See More
Literature & Fiction
Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb, internationally acclaimed for the "quiet fire"* of her Appalachian Ballad novels, clearly has a dark side--a wicked, sardonic wit that has prompted critics to compare her to Jane Austen and... See More
Short Stories
"In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature... The overall effect is spellbinding." --The Washington Post Bestselling author... See More
Mystery
"Delicious. Delightful. A Royal entertainment." Carolyn G. Hart If forensic anthropologist and ameteur slueth Elizabeth MacPherson is to have tea with the Queen of England, she has to get married first. And in the space of... See More
United States
"Eloquent, lyrical, and richly textured... There is no one quite like [McCrumb] among present-day writers. No one better either." -- San Diego Union-Tribune With a career spanning decades, and superlatives from reviewers... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb's widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson. When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune... See More
Mystery
When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer's wife for twenty... See More
Literature & Fiction
The Ballad of Tom Dooley is a literary triumph -- what began as a fictional re-telling of the historical account of one of the most famous mountain ballads of all time became an astonishing revelation of the real culprit... See More
Strange days tracks everyone down in the little mountain town of Hamelin, when the high school reunion of the class of '66 awakens old ghosts from the past. This first novel in Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed Ballad series was a... See More
Humor & Satire
Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb brings you her sixth Elizabeh MacPherson mystery novel. The unsinkable Elizabeth is on tour of England's most famous murder sites, when Rowan Rover, the group leader, is quietly asked to... See More
United States
"Who but Sharyn McCrumb can make a skull with a bullet hole funny? Those who like sardonic wit, slightly bent characters, and good fun will love Lovely in Her Bones." -- Tony Hillerman When an Appalachian dig to determine... See More
Literary Fiction
Mystery
"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller." Mary Higgins Clark Sharyn McCrumb's acclaimed sequel to MISSING SUSAN. Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson heads to Danville, Virginia, to save her brother Bill--a novice... See More
History
A collection of essays dealing with the Ballad novels of New York Times Best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb, examining the history, folklore and culture of the region of which she writes. See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
"Sharyn McCrumb transforms mystery into astonishing literature." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer Forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson gets a chance to revel in the rites of the old country at the annual Glencoe... See More
Historical Fiction
"Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic... She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true... See More
Contemporary Fiction
When someone buys the old Honeycutt house, Nora Bonesteel is glad to see some life brought back to the old mansion, even if it is by summer people. But when they decide to stay through Christmas, they find more than old... See More
United States
Asheville is a town with a strong sense of place--architecture, mountain views, a creative locus. a history as complicated as any Southern town. Now twenty-seven (and then some) of the legions of writers who call Asheville... See More
Literature & Fiction
John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution. Homesteading in the Carolina mountains, Sevier was too busy fighting Indians and taming the wilderness to worry much about a far-off war, but when an... See More
Capturing the enduring beauty of the Appalachian mountains where she sets her novels, Sharyn McCrumb's sixth Ballad Novel weaves a beautifully written, historically accurate tale of a song's passage through history-from the... See More
History
This new Kindle edition of the New York Times bestselling novel "She Walks These Hills" contains a new introduction analyzing the structure and symbolism of the book, and the essay "The Serpentine Chain," discussing the ties... See More
From the chestnut blight of the 1930's to industrial water pollution today, this novel looks at environmental issues and the issue of environmental responsibility. In this novel, sorrow comes to the mountain community in the... See More
Literature & Fiction
Rattler, the curmudgeonly shaman of Sharyn McCrumb's Ballad novels, travels to the battlefield at Gettysburg to explore a supernatural element of the Civil War. Then, in Rattler and the Wild Hunt, Rattler confronts... See More
Historical Fiction
The New York Times bestselling author of She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket returns with another sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern-day mountain folk... See More