She Walks These Hills

by Sharyn McCrumb

In the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee some believe the hills are still haunted by a woman kidnapped 200 years ago by the Shawnee. When a convicted murderer escapes from prison and heads home to the wife who divorced him, policewoman Martha Ayres must put superstitions to rest and stop the real flesh-and-blood predator before he kills again. An entry in McCrumb's acclaimed Ballad series, which also includes "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter", and "The Rosewood Casket".

Editions of She Walks These Hills

ISBN 9780786113514	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc	Date 1998	Price $54.09	Used - Good
ISBN 9781568953571	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Wheeler Pub Inc	Date 1996	Price $15.16	Used - Good
ISBN 9781561002283	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Brilliance Audio Lib Edn	Date 1994	Price None Available
ISBN 9781561003945	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Brilliance Audio	Date 1994	Price $5.95	Fine
ISBN 9781561006038	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Brilliance Audio	Date 1994	Price None Available
ISBN 9781578150250	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Media Books Llc	Date 1996	Price $1.00	Used - Good
ISBN 9780788702297	Binding/Format Audio Cassette	Publisher Recorded Books	Date 1999	Price $23.91	Used - Good
ISBN 9780684195568	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Simon & Schuster	Date 1994	Price $1.00	Very Good

Publisher Notes

Historian Jeremy Cobb is backpacking on the Appalachian Trail, attempting to retrace the tragic journey of eighteen-year-old Katie Wyler, who was captured by the Shawnee after the massacre of her pioneer family in Mitchell County, North Carolina. In late summer, Katie escaped from a Shawnee village on the banks of the Ohio, and followed the rivers through the wilderness to find her way home - a brave journey that ended in sorrow. Jeremy, a city-bred graduate student with no trail experience, is determined to complete his scholarly quest, unaware that his journey will be both a trial of hardships and a mystical experience. He does not know that the spirit of Katie Wyler is still seen wandering the hills, trying to get home. Mountain wise woman Nora Bonesteel sees her every autumn "when the air is crisp and the light is slanted and the birds are still". Hiram Sorley, known as Harm, is also at large in the Appalachian wilderness. Sorely, who has escaped from the Northeast Correctional Center in Mountain City, Tennessee, is the focus of a wide-spread manhunt involving most of the area's law enforcement officers. There's just one problem: nobody wants him caught. Harm has become a folk hero. Sheriff Spencer Arrowood feels sorry for Harm, imprisoned for life for killing a hated local bureaucrat. There is even some doubt about Harm's guilt. Besides, the elderly convict has Korsakoff's syndrome, a disease that robs its sufferers of their recent memories. To Harm, it is always 1967. Harm doesn't even remember the crime. For Martha Ayers, who wants the job of deputy, catching Harm Sorely would be the best way to prove her fitness for the position. Harm, an Appalachian Don Quixote on the edge ofreality, meets both Jeremy and the still-wandering Katie Wyler on his journey back to a home that isn't there anymore. He is the "last moonshiner", holding the dream of an unspoiled wilderness in the fragile web of his delusions. When he goes, it will be lost forever.

Media Reviews

"A lyrically written, emotionally charged evocation of present-day Appalachia and its population...will leave you both satisfied and hungry for more....Sharyn McCrumb has few equals and no superiors among today's novelists."

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