Ballad novels
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Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong. When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace. Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those...
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The hangman's beautiful daughter , Ballad novels volume 2
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She walks these hills , Ballad novels volume 3
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The rosewood casket , Ballad novels volume 4
Author
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 8
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a sensationalized 1934 trial involving an Appalachian Virginia teacher's alleged murder of her tyrant father, novice journalist Carl Jennings is denounced by a greedy media determined to portray the defendant as a backwards mountain girl.
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author--the first Ballad novel to feature the epic, and gorgeously-portrayed, American Revolution John Sevier had not taken much interest in the American Revolution, he was too busy fighting Indians in the Carolinas and taming the wilderness. But when an arrogant British officer threatened his settlement--promising to burn the farms and kill families--the war became personal. That arrogant officer is Patrick...
Author
Series
Ballad novels volume 11
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Appointed to serve out her late husband's term as sheriff of their Depression-era Tennessee mountain town, Ellie struggles to reconcile her responsibilities with societal expectations for women and forges unexpected ties with a condemned killer she is scheduled to execute.
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Series
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When someone buys the old Honeycutt house, Nora Bonesteel is glad to see some life brought back to the old mansion, even if it is by summer people. But when the new owners decide to stay in their summer home through Christmas, they find more than old memories in the walls.