This book was very interesting to begin with, due to the fact that even though it takes place in the early 1930's, or around that time period, it still parallels today, over 80 years later.
It's a story of a women who is charged with the murder of her father in a small town in Virginia. As all press seems to do, they get wind of the story, and it because national news. People don't know where to point fingers next, and to tell the truth, who is lying?
Sharyn McCrumb, really captures that whole aspect of how the media can bend things, and tell a story that people WILL believe, even though some thing may not be true. She also paints a great picture of the mountains of Virginia, where the simple life should quite stay the simple life, but the media get ahold of it and there peace becomes a problem.
It has an interesting end to it all. I think most were very involved with it. They liked how it read pretty quick, but that they enjoyed the story that was being told.
**** of 5
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