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2019/45: She Walks These Hills -- Sharyn McCrumb
Thursday, May 9th, 2019 07:34 am2019/45: She Walks These Hills -- Sharyn McCrumb
I'd read, and vastly enjoyed, McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun (murder mystery set at a science fiction convention) back before the Internet, so when I was looking for a novel set in Appalachia she was an easy choice. She Walks These Hills is not quite a murder mystery, though there are murders within it. The entwined plot threads -- an escaped convict going home, a female police dispatcher who wants to be a deputy, a hapless historian trying to recreate the historic journey of a young woman escaping from her captors -- combine in unexpected ways to tell a story of escapes, ghosts and memories.
( no spoilers )
As Nora Bonesteel tied the wisp of black ribbon to the nail on the lid of the white bee box, she wondered if there were any other deaths she ought to mention to the bees, or if those mattered. Perhaps the bees did not need to be told yet. The other deaths had not yet happened. [p. 148]
I'd read, and vastly enjoyed, McCrumb's Bimbos of the Death Sun (murder mystery set at a science fiction convention) back before the Internet, so when I was looking for a novel set in Appalachia she was an easy choice. She Walks These Hills is not quite a murder mystery, though there are murders within it. The entwined plot threads -- an escaped convict going home, a female police dispatcher who wants to be a deputy, a hapless historian trying to recreate the historic journey of a young woman escaping from her captors -- combine in unexpected ways to tell a story of escapes, ghosts and memories.
( no spoilers )
