This mild-mannered mystery, number nine in the Elizabeth MacPherson series from versatile writer McCrumb (Bimboes of the Death Sun; If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him), is a humorous, fast-paced story. When we join MacPherson, she has just checked into the Cherry Hill Psychiatric Hospital to deal with depression brought on by the death of her husband. Meanwhile, struggling Virginia lawyer Bill MacPherson, Elizabeth's brother, has purchased an old mansion...

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood's testimony helped convict a Tennessee youth for the slaying of two hikers; now twenty years later he is invited to the execution. Spencer, recovering from a wound, is obsessed with understanding what happened in a century-old murder case which resulted in the first hanging of a woman in North Carolina, and finds parallels between tne two cases.

The Hamelin High School class of 1966 plans a grand reunion. In the meantime, a famous singer has bought the town mansion and is stalked by a killer.

Laura Bruce, wife of a minister in Appalachia, experiences dangers after she is asked by the sheriff to help tend the survivors from a scene of carnage at a farm.

A sweeping novel that juxtaposes the legends of the Civil War with the lives of the modern-day mountain folk.

While planning her wedding in five weeks and working on her doctorate, Elizabeth MacPherson tackles an unusual mystery.

Sheriff Spencer Arrowood receives an invitation to an execution for Fate Harkryder, a young man he helped convict twenty years earlier for the murder of two hikers, but the parallels between the Harkryder case and another murder that took place over one hundred years earlier, leads Spencer to question whether Harkryder is really guilty.

Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song she heard as a child living in the North Carolina mountians. Over the years, the memory of the old song has dimmed and lark's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain wisewoman Nora Bonsteel, who talks to both the living and the dead.

Elizabeth MacPherson tracks a would-be -assassin among a tour group of Americans visiting England's most famous murder sites.