Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 11/12/2010 + 1568 more book reviews

Hmmm, how to categorize this one? . . . The activity takes place in everyday America, but it has the flavor of an old-timey Appalachian ballad to it. I'm not talking about the book's chapter headings taken from old mountain songs, but about the inevitability of certain things. Given the way some people are, some things simply HAVE to happen, right? Well Sharon McCrumb somehow makes you feel that patterning and natural balance for yourself.

From back cover: Everyone in Dark Hollow, Tennesee, knew that old Nora Bonesteel had 'the Sight.' So naturally she was the first to know about the murder-suicide. Four members of the Underhill family lay dead on a run-down farm, and the two children who survived had no one left. Only the minister's wife, Laura Bruce, was willing to be their guardian.
The grisly case was supposed to be 'open and shut,' but it bothered Sheriff Spencer Arrowood. He had this worried feeling that the bad things were far from over at the Underhill's farm. And he would feel a lot worse if he knew what else old Nora saw: tragedy for Laura Bruce, an elderly man, and a young mother...and the kind of dying that would test the courage of the living and a sheriff's insights into country ways and hearts.

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