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The Ballad of Frankie Silver

The Ballad of Frankie Silver

by SharynMcCrumb (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $21.46

  • Used

    Hardcover 1998

    $5.88
Synopsis

Frankie Silver was arrested in 1832: a small blonde girl, only eighteen, charged with the savage murder of her husband Charlie in their frontier cabin. Lafayette Harkryder was also eighteen when he was arrested, accused of the brutal killing of two young hikers. Two violent crimes, two trials - and two people whose refusal to speak out may well send them to their deaths, separated by one hundred and fifty years of Appalachian history. Burgess Gaither, a twenty-five-year-old-lawyer who witnessed the story from the discovery of Charlie Silver's body to the hanging of Frankie Silver, speaks for Frankie. Sherriff Spencer Arrowood, who arrested Fate Harkryder so many years ago, has been invited to his execution by the state of Tennessee. As the two stories unfold, Gaither and Arrowood both realize that both Frankie Silver and Fate Harkryder have hidden part of their stories - and may have shielded the truly guilty.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 340
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 18 Mar 1999
ISBN 10: 0340717157
ISBN 13: 9780340717158
Book Overview: Sharyn McCrumb's She Walks These Hills won the Anthony Award for Best Novel at the 1995 Bouchercon.

Media Reviews
'A riveting tale ... two grisly killings that are separated by more than a century but share a chilling secret.' -- Newsday 'The fifth book in Sharyn McCrumb's enthralling series of Appalachian mountain tales ... McCrumb threads both stories into a single pattern, a dense and lovely but very dark design' -- New York Times Book Review 'The mountain girl became a legend, one that Sharyn McCrumb has taken and woven into a colourful intrigue of fact, fiction, history and the present.' -- Arizona Republic
Author Bio
A native of North Carolina, Sharyn McCrumb lives in Virginia with her husband David, an environmental engineer, and their three children. She is the author of many novels and has twice won Best Appalachain Novel Award as well as the Edgar, Anthony, Malice Domestic, Agatha and Macavity in crime fiction.