Ballad Novels The Devil Amongst the Lawyers, Book 8, (Paperback)

from Carol420

A young woman is in jail and awaiting trial for supposedly murdering her father. Reporters are arriving in this small Virginia coal town with only one thing on their minds , the stories that they will send their respective papers. If any of the stories contain even a small bit of truth it was pro...

from Camellia1

Sharyn McCrumb's new book The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is described as a new novel in her Ballad series. While the book is set in Appalachia and includes the appearance of a teenaged Nora Bonesteel, there is little else in common with the other Ballad books. The main characters of the book are a...

from Jim53

Sharyn McCrumb's new Ballad novel is a precursor to the previous volumes. In a small town in Appalachian Virginia, a pretty young teacher is accused of murdering her father. Carl Jennings, earnest young local reporter, is eager to find out the truth of the story. Apparently, he's the only person ...

from thornton37814

In this return to her Ballad series, Sharyn McCrumb chooses to fictionalize a 1935 murder trial in southwest Virginia. The defendant is a young beautiful teacher accused of murdering her father. The trial is receiving national attention because her brother has "sold the rights" to a New York news...

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Sharyn McCrumb's 2010 novel “The Devil Amongst the Lawyers” is actually more about the devil amongst the newspaper reporters. It is based loosely on an actual murder case from the 1930s. Reporters gather in little Wise, Va., less because the case is interesting than because the defendant, Erma Mo...