Sharyn McCrumb
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A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording reimagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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The 1935 trial for Erma Morton, a teacher in a remote Virginia mountain town who stands accused of murdering her drunken father, causes reporter Carl Jennings to clash with the rest of the media when his accurate reporting conflicts with the sensational accounts from the other journalists who insist on portraying Erma as a backwards mountain girl.
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"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 Ferguson of the British Army--who is both charmingly antagonistic and surprisingly endearing. Inventor of the Ferguson rifle, and the devoted...