New York: St Martin's, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set mostly in the Great Smoky Mountains and involving a 150 year old blood feud - "a literary novel that is also an intricate suspenseful mystery - a story blending the macabre and the historic.. the violent and the heroic." Dustjacket praise from Reynolds Price, Russell Banks and James Lee Burke, among others. 341pp. ISBN: 0-312-271808.

New York: Dutton, 2001. Novel set in the Appalachian Mountains at the border of Tennessee and North Carolina - and also at the border of history and contemporary times, and the traditional ways and the changes which have come to the area recently. In her afterword McCrumb explains that for the first time in one of her books she used her own family's history.

New York: Scribner's, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of her 'ballad novels' set in the Appalachians, a series which celebrate the people and traditions of the mountain South. Winner of the McCavity Award, finalist for the Anthony and Nero, a NY Times Notable book - and one of the author's harder to find titles. 312 pp. ISBN: 0-684-191040.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a family who found and marked their way into America's eastern frontier, beginning with Petal in 1772, who as a teenager ran off with a handsome homesteader to the mountains of Tennessee. ISBN: 1-56512-0213.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a family who found and marked their way into America's eastern frontier, beginning with Petal in 1772, who as a teenager ran off with a handsome homesteader to the mountains of Tennessee. ISBN: 1-56512-0213.