Dimensions
111 x 178 x 27mm
The fifth book in Sharyn McCrumb's enthralling series of Appalachian mountain tales.
Frankie Silver was arrested in 1832: a small blonde girl, only eighteen, charged with the savage murder of her handsome husband Charlie in their frontier cabin. Lafayette Harkryder was also eighteen when he was arrested, accused of the brutal killing of two young hikers. Two violent crimes, two trials - and two people whose refusal to speak out may well send them to their deaths, separated by one hundred and fifty years of Appalachian history.
Burgess Gaither, a twenty-five-year-old lawyer who witnessed the story from the discovery of Charlie Silver's body to the hanging of Frankie Silver, speaks for Frankie. Sheriff Spencer Arrowood, who arrested Fate Harkryder so many years ago, has been invited to his execution by the state of Tennessee.
As the two stories unfold, Gaither and Arrowood both realise that though the Appalachian mountains keep their secrets well, both Frankie Silver and FAte Harkryder have hidden part of their stories - and may have shielded the truly guilty.
