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Title: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb, Brilliance Corporation, Buck Schirner ISBN: 1-56100-228-3 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: November, 1994 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $73.25

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Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (36 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The author I've been searching for ....
Comment: Sharyn McCrumb is visiting our libray tomorrow here in Maryland. Her visit includes a musician, story telling session, etc. so I thought I'd check out one of her books. Wow! I normally wouldn't give a book like this a look but boy, am I glad I did.

Excellent wrting skills with a good command of vocabulary and structure; excellent interweaving of stories amongst time (I thought this was better incorporated than in 'The Hours'), wonderful character development with impeccable research. Held the reader's interest with out having to resort to objectionable language, steamy sex, or graphic, gratuitous situations. You cared about these characters and were pulled into the story. I could almost imagine the hill country.

Some readers said this wasn't her best - well if that's the case than I can't wait to read her other novels. What a treat - this is what I have been searching for - just a really good book.

Rating: 4
Summary: A wonderful blend of past and present
Comment: Sharyn McCrumb takes us back for another visit to Hamelin, Tennessee with terrific results. She is able to seamlessly switch back and forth from Katie Wyler's time in the 1790s to the escaped convict's 1960s to present day.

Blending an escaped convict, a deputy in training, a missing baby, a young woman from 200 years ago and the grad student following her path; Ms McCrumb creates a delightful story. As with the rest of the ballad series, the story is rich with well-developed characters. You keep turning the pages to find out what happened to poor Katie 200 years ago, and what will happen when the convict gets home to a town he no longer recognizes. It's very hard to leave the town and its people at the end of the book.

The only negative thing about the book is the graduate student. While, a very interesting idea to have a grad student study the plight of this young woman from 200 years ago, did the student have to be so stupid? I found myself getting very annoyed with this one character's cluelessness, and only found comfort in the fact that at he finally realized his situation.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Long Black Veil
Comment: Now, this is by far my favorite of the McCrumb masterpieces, and I have read most (not all) of her diverse novels. This one involves a woman who loves a sinner; he went to his death before he would divulge their relationship and cause her problems. Little did he know that by his actions, she would forever 'walk these hills' in a long black veil.

Before leaving the small town, I would call my local deejays of the morning to request the new release, SHE WALKS THESE HILLS, which gave them something to snicker about as it was an old, old song releasd in the fifties. I later learned that Johnny Cash also had a pretty good version.

Ms. McCrumb varies in her subject matter and researches her later books to some extent. This is one of her best.