Sharyn McCrumb
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Fan favorite Sharyn McCrumb teams with professional race car driver Adam Edwards for this high-speed tale of horsepower and high jinx. When hotshot stock car driver Camber Berkley crashes his ride on a winding mountain road, the wreckage interrupts the funeral of a wealthy racing fan. The folks of Judas Grove, Tennessee, give Camber a choice. He can either spend three months in the slammer, or he can train the local ministers as they prepare for a...
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"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking...
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“McCrumb draws you close, makes you care.” —Los Angeles Times
Racing fans have never seen anything like it—and they've seen plenty—the first all-women's team in stock-car racing history. Already a national sensation, the spotlight heats up when financial challenges force Team 86 to hire a male “wheel man.”
And Badger Jenkins is a man all right—a sweet-faced Georgian who oozes aw-shucks charm off the track
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Ballad novels volume 11
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Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands...
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Ballad novels volume 1
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Written in grease pencil on a tourist postcard, the lyrics are winsome and innocent. But for famous folk singer Peggy Muryan, who has moved recently to the rural community of Hamelin, Tennessee, they are a chilling reminder of a troubled moment in her past.
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 5
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Elizabeth pushes up her wedding date to Cameron Dawson when she learns that he has been invited to a garden party whose illustrious guest list includes none other than the Queen of England. As Elizabeth frantically prepares to tie the knot, she finds herself unraveling a local mystery.
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Sharyn McCrumb is widely recognized for her incisive wit and deft social awareness. In The PMS Outlaws, McCrumb adds a fresh addition to the chronicles of Elizabeth MacPherson. Other novels in the series include MacPherson's Lament and Missing Susan. Elizabeth, deeply troubled by the death of her husband, has checked into a mental institution for treatment. There, she meets a host of colorful patients, each with their own quirky point of view. Meanwhile,...
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Ballad novels volume 10
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"From the New York Times bestselling author--the first Ballad novel to feature the epic, and gorgeously-portrayed, American Revolution John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick Ferguson...
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 8
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Anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is hired as an investigator by a Virginia law firm, defending two women in love-and-revenge murders. One woman is accused of poisoning an unfaithful husband, the other, a divorcee, of shooting her ex and his new wife. By the author of Playing the Piper.
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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 real-life research, he hardly expected it to get published. But when a publisher changed the title of his novel to Bimbos of the Death Sun, James-under the pen name Jay Omega-becomes an overnight sci-fi star. Invited to the annual...
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 7
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Sharyn McCrumb's Edgar Award-winning series features the savvy exploits of forensic anthropologist and not-so-amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson. In MacPherson's Lament, family troubles in Virginia spin out of control, forcing Elizabeth to leave her adopted Scotland to sort out the multiplying problems. Struggling to start a new law practice in Danville, Virginia, Bill MacPherson will handle almost any case, even his parents' divorce. But when he...
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 6
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Anyone with a taste for murder with a British twist will stand in line to listen to this riveting audiobook by internationally acclaimed author Sharyn McCrumb. Laced with biting wit, humor and a delightful helping of irony, Missing Susan carries listeners on a holiday filled with potentially lethal adventure. When Rowan Rover is offered $50,000 to murder a woman on his September Mystery Tour, he is surprised to find himself accepting the offer. The...
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Ballad novels volume 4
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Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 3
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The Glencoe Scottish games-a summer festival where several hundred kilt-clad Americans celebrate their Scottish roots-is off to a bad start when Colin Campbell, a troublemaker from the Campbell clan, is found dead in his cottage with a skian dubh in his chest.
17) Paying the piper
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Elizabeth MacPherson mysteries volume 4
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Elizabeth has a plan for how she and her boyfriend Cameron can spend the summer together in Scotland. While Cameron researches the migratory patterns of seals, Elizabeth will join an archaeological dig on the nearby island of Banrigh. But Elizabeth's plans don't include a devastating plague which starts killing off her fellow crew members.
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Ballad novels volume 9
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A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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Ballad novels volume 8
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In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.