Sharyn McCrumb. (2017). The Unquiet Grave: A Novel. Atria Books.

Sharyn McCrumb. 2017. The Unquiet Grave: A Novel. Atria Books.

Sharyn McCrumb, The Unquiet Grave: A Novel. Atria Books, 2017.

Sharyn McCrumb. The Unquiet Grave: A Novel. Atria Books, 2017.

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   • bioText: 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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From the New York Times bestselling author of Prayers the Devil Answers and The Ballad of Tom Dooley, a "fascinating historical fiction novel you won't be able to put down" (Bustle) based on 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. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride—a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost.

Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897: Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains. Despite her mother's misgivings, Zona marries the handsome Erasmus Trout Shue, Greenbrier's newest resident and blacksmith. Her mother learns of her daughter's death weeks later. A month after the funeral, Zona's mother makes a chilling claim to the county prosecutor: her daughter was murdered, and she was told this by none other than Zona's ghost...

With her unique and "real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots" (Booklist), Sharyn McCrumb effortlessly demonstrates her place among the finest Southern writers at work today.

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     May 1, 2017
     

     In McCrumb's (Prayers the Devil Answers) latest novel, which draws on a historical court case that involved the legendary Greenbrier Ghost, dual narrators tell an unsettling story set in 19th-century West Virginia. In 1930, James Gardner, committed to the Lakin State Hospital for the Colored Insane, recounts his role as second chair and defense attorney in the 1897 trial of Edward "Trout" Shue for the murder of his wife. In the second narrative, Mary Jane Heaster relates the story of her daughter, Zona, a beautiful young woman who fell hard for Trout, and paid the ultimate price, "falling" to her death. Determined to find justice for her daughter, Mary Jane pushes the county prosecutor, telling him that Zona's ghost had recalled how she'd been killed by Trout. Can a man be convicted of murder based on the testimony of a ghost? VERDICT In this compelling story, McCrumb continues to relate the dynamic tales of Appalachia and its people. Fans of Julia Keller's "Bell Elkins" mysteries may want to try this. [See Prepub Alert, 3/27/17.]--LH

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     May 15, 2017
     McCrumb's new novel is based on a relatively obscure ghost story. In West Virginia in the late 1890s, Zona Heaster Shue, a newlywed, died. Her death was attributed to natural causes, butand here's where the story takes a right-angle turn into the paranormalthe dead woman's mother reported to the prosecutor that her daughter's ghost had told her she was murdered by her husband. After Zona's body was exhumed and examined, her husband was put on trial and found guilty, based, it seems, mostly on the testimony of a ghost. McCrumb's fictional version of the story of the Greenbrier Ghost incorporates some of the real people and events, but this is not a work of nonfiction, and readers should not expect the book to solve the most notable mystery surrounding the story: Did Zona's mother honestly believe her daughter's ghost had fingered her killer, or did she simply concoct a story to put the man behind bars? McCrumb, author of a string of novels about the history and legends of North Carolina, has a real knack for crafting full-bodied characters and using folklore to construct compelling plots.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)

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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. Testing a new talking cure for insanity, Boozer encourages his elderly patient to share his experiences as the first black attorney to practice law in 19th-century West Virginia. His memorable case: defending a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride—a case that the prosecution based on the testimony of a ghost.

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