The Unquiet Grave

from bgknighton

Sharyn masterfully intertwines 2 time lines to tell the story of the death of an abused wife in 1897 and the life of one of the first black attorneys in West Virginia. As always, she invokes the feel of the mountains without making light of their inhabitants.

from Beamis12

3.5 Takes a while for this story to actually get going, but I love this type of fiction, so I persevered. A combination of folklore, ghost story and a real murder trial, set at the turn of the century in Appalachia. This author does these types of stories so well, and always does an amazing amoun...

from N.W.Moors

The Unquiet Grave is based on the true story of the Greenbriar Ghost. A young woman, Zona Shue, died after three months of marriage. Her mother claimed Zona's ghost visited her and said she had been murdered by her husband, Trout Shue. The mother, Mary Jane, persuades the local prosecutor to dig ...

from irregularreader

In 1930, successful attorney James P.D. Gardner is an inmate of a segregated West Virginia mental asylum following a suicide attempt. In 1897, the beautiful, reckless, and headstrong Zona Heaster defies her family and marries Edward "Trout" Shue after a whirlwind courtship. Within months, Zona is...

from hubblegal

Sharyn McCrumb is a long-time favorite author of mine. Her ballad books are food for my literary soul, with her hauntingly beautiful tales of the Appalachian Mountains folklore. This time she's veered away from those ballads with a historical novel based upon a true incident. There actually was a...