The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
The Hangmans Beautiful Daughter, Sharyn McCrumb
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The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter

Author: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrator: Sally Darling

Unabridged: 10 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/31/1993

Synopsis

Edgar and Macavity Award-winning author Sharyn McCrumb transports you to legend-rich Appalachia with her suspense-packed Ballad series. In The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter, a young minister’s wife struggles to understand a sudden, unexplained death. Laura Bryce has lived in the small east Tennessee community such a short time that she still feels like an outsider. But when there is violence on the Underhill farm, the sheriff calls on her to represent the church. He will handle the bodies, but she must comfort the bereaved. However, the unspeakable carnage she confronts in the farmhouse will push her down a rocky pathway of danger and heartache. Sharyn McCrumb, compared by critics to William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, and Eudora Welty, creates evocative tales and strong, complex characters. Narrator Sally Darling provides the perfect voice for the beleaguered but resilient people who inhabit the hills and valleys of Appalachia.

About Sharyn McCrumb

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on September 01, 2009

This is my second book by Sharyn McCrumb, and I liked this one best. She has such a way of transporting me to backwoods Tennessee. I feel like I'm sitting on somebody's porch, listening to Uncle Asa tell stories. This story just meanders on down the hill, taking its own sweet time. In this book, the......more

Goodreads review by Werner on March 05, 2010

Modern/contemporary general fiction hasn't formed the largest bloc of my reading --not because I don't like it, but just because, at the specific times when I've picked books to read over the years, selections from the other genres have usually happened to overshadow anything from this one. And I gr......more

Goodreads review by Kristi Lamont on May 06, 2022

Well, I'll be reading more of Ms. McCrumb's work. I felt like I was back in time, a little-bitty girl going on a picnic on the mountain with MawMaw and PawPaw or going out to the mountain to visit with Aunt Ethel and Uncle John Henry. The light blue eyes, the seeing things that are to come but that......more

Goodreads review by Connie on June 12, 2013

The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter, published in 1992, introduced Sharyn McCrumb's portrait of life in Dark Hollow, Tennessee, a small town in the Appalachian mountains. This novel was a Mystery Guild Selection. Main characters begin with Nora Bonesteel, an elderly woman with the gift of Sight. Her hou......more

Goodreads review by Mary on November 23, 2015

In the used bookstore a few days ago I asked the clerk for a mystery recommendation. This was one of them. While it isn't objectively bad, I just didn't enjoy it. I realized tonight that I was coming up with any excuse to not pick it up and finish. So I quickly skimmed the last half and guess what?......more

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