Sharyn McCrumb is the author of "The Ballad of Frankie Silver"," She Walks These Hills, " and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by "The""New York Times" and the "Los Angeles Times." She was named a "Virginia Woman of History" for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.
Praise for "The Devil Amongst the Lawyers":
"The story begins with a train ride, a magic carpet that carries us
back to the year 1935 and into the heart of a famous murder trial.
As we head for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we get to know
the characters, those journalists and photographers and
sensation-seekers who always turn up for a good spectacle. "Sharyn
McCrumb re-creates this time and place with such precision, the
reader forgets that seventy-five years have passed since that
faraway event in that isolated place where the outer world clashes
with superstition and folklore. This is storytelling as those
Celtic bards meant it to be: lyrical, haunting, and truly
unforgettable." --Cathie Pelletier, author of "The Funeral Makers"
and "Running the Bulls""Wow! Sharyn McCrumb is not "just" a
writer---in fact, she's a conjurer, a genius, a wordsmith, an
entertainer, a wit, a scholar, a wise woman, and a storyteller
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Praise for"The Devil Amongst the Lawyers"
"The story begins with a train ride, a magic carpet that carries us
back to the year 1935 and into the heart of a famous murder trial.
As we head for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we get to know
the characters, those journalists and photographers and
sensation-seekers who always turn up for a good spectacle. "Sharyn
McCrumb re-creates this time and place with such precision, the
reader forgets that seventy-five years have passed since that
faraway event in that isolated place where the outer world clashes
with superstition and folklore. This is storytelling as those
Celtic bards meant it to be: lyrical, haunting, and truly
unforgettable." --Cathie Pelletier, author of "The Funeral Makers"
and "Running the Bulls""Wow! Sharyn McCrumb is not "just" a
writer---in fact, she's a conjurer, a genius, a wordsmith, an
entertainer, a wit, a scholar, a wise woman, and a storyteller of
the first rank. "The Devil Amongst the Lawyers" is flat-out
brilliant and transcendent, a book that gets everything exactly
right. Simply put, novels don't come any better than this."
--Martin Clark, author of "The Legal Limit" and "The Many Aspects
of Mobile Home Living """The Devil Amongst the Lawyers" is a superb
novel that, once started, is so well written and so expertly
researched that readers will find it impossible to put down. It is
also a scathing indictment of how Appalachia has been, and
continues to be, stereotyped by a supposedly objective media.
Bravo!" --Ron Rash, author of "Serena
"More Praise for Sharyn McCrumb:
"There are few writers today who are able to blend past and
present, tradition and law, legends and headlines in a wholly
credible fashion-- Tony Hillerman springs inevitably to mind.
Sharyn McCrumb is another; her widely acclaimed Ballad Series is
one of the finest being written today." --Bookpage"McCrumb provides
fresh evidence that there is no one quite like her among
present-day writers. No one better, either." --San Diego
Union-Tribune"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 storyteller, she has the Sight."
--The New York Times Book Review
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