Sharyn McCrumb is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Ballad novels. She has received numerous honors for her work, including the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Southern Literature, the AWA Book of the Year, and Notable Books in both The New York Times and LA Times. She was also named a Virginia Woman of History for Achievement in Literature. She lives and writes in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, fewer than 100 miles from where her family settled in 1790.

Books by Sharyn McCrumb

The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel

by Sharyn McCrumb - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 1935 Erma Morton, a beautiful young woman with a teaching degree, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community. A local journalist, Carl Jennings, covering his first major story, reports what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty. But who will believe a local cub reporter whose stories contradict the nation’s star journalists?