She Walks These Hills
by Sharyn McCrumb
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Author: Sharyn McCrumbEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-10-01
ISBN: 0451184726
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of She Walks These Hills
Book Review: Very suspenseful and well narrated
Summary: 5 Stars
Sharyn McCrumb is one of those authors that seems to delight in observing things in minute detail, and the pictures she paints in her books create a whole world, full of interesting and individualized characters. Her characterization is so good that even if nothing at all happened, I wouldn't mind. But McCrumb is too good an author for that. She is not afraid to torment her characters mercilessly. In this book, a brain-damaged man who is unfairly jailed escapes and endures tremendous hardship on the road and then really gets hit with some bad news (I am not going to give you spoilers, just read it). A woman goes through a terrible experience discovering her man is committing adultery, and we hear every thought in her head, brutal and animalistic and believable. A young history professor obsessed with folk stories about a young woman who lived in the late 1700's, follows this historical woman's trail through the wilderness. He comes very close to death by starvation and cholera, just to discover that the woman of his obsession was all too human.
These are just skimpy descriptions of what happens in this book. It's really an exciting read. It's a murder mystery with all of the suspense and action you could want, and none of the horrendous graphic one-upsmanship that bad mystery writers fall back on when they can't write well. She Walks These Hills kept me up until 5:30AM because I couldn't stop listening.
Read by Sally Darling, whose lovely Southern accent brings tremendous life to this book. Her voice sparkles with an almost Renaissance quality, where there is no silent vowel, so that the word "need" is pronounced "ne-ed," for example. Man, I could listen to her talk all day.
I review only audiobooks. Check out my other reviews, then download, plug in, and never be bored again.
Summary of She Walks These Hills
Applying her psychic talents to two mysterious cases, policewoman Martha Ayers attempts to settle local superstitions about a two-hundred-year-old ghost while tracking down an escaped prisoner. Reprint. NYT.Literary Books
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