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    The Rosewood Casket
    The Rosewood Casket
    The Rosewood Casket
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Rosewood Casket

    Written by Sharyn McCrumb

    Narrated by Sally Darling

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning Southern writer Sharyn McCrumb is a New York Times best-selling author who's won widespread critical acclaim for her Appalachian Ballad novels. In The Rosewood Casket, a farmer named Randall Stargill has fallen into a coma. As his family gathers to prepare for the inevitable, his four sons work on a handmade casket and their wives sew a quilt to line it. Complications arise, however, when clairvoyant neighbor Nora Bonesteel brings her own disturbing contribution to the coffin: a small box containing a child's skeleton.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 12, 2012
    ISBN9781470333515
    The Rosewood Casket
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    Sharyn McCrumb

    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 Los Angeles 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 one hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790.

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    • 4/5
      Another of the ballad novels, Nora Bonesteel brings a small box of bones to be buried with Randall Stargill. Using Indian legends and the stories about Daniel Boone, McCrumb presents a mystery novel with family secrets and tragedies.
    • 4/5
      Another Appalachian mystery with seer Nora Bonesteel. Randall Stargill is dying on his farm and his 4 sons have come home to build his casket of rosewood. A local real estate developer hovers, and Nora Bonesteel brings a mysterious box to be buried with Randall. Very good.
    • 4/5
      Although I didn't find this book that suspenseful, I did enjoy the story. I really enjoy Ms. McCrumb's writing, and the way she introduces a bit of the supernatural in her stories with her wonderful Nora Bonesteel. I also love the setting high in the Appalachian mountains. It sounds like beautiful country. This is a book that depicts the way small family farms are disappearing throughout North America. It's about a very old mystery, and a modern-day tragedy. It's also about a family of four boys who learn to rediscover themselves when they have to return home to their ailing father. The story is bittersweet, and the legends are wonderful.
    • 5/5
      The ballad novels are amazing and The Rosewood Casket does not fail readers. The twists and turns and the characters are incredibly memorable.
    • 3/5
      I generally like McCrumb’s tales of small town crime and relationships in the Tennessee mountains, but this one – the third one I’ve read – is more slow-going and less interesting than the first two. It concerns the four sons who come home to attend the death of their father and make him a coffin, the girl next door who can’t give up her family’s land, and the buried bodies (literally and figuratively) in both their families’ pasts. The suspenseful chase and climax feels a little contrived. But I do like her poetic language and the way she weaves the past with the present, so The Rosewood Casket is still a very pleasant read.