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Sharyn McCrumb, New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Ballad series, examines one of the most famous community executions in US background in her stunning and powerfully written Depression-era book. Years later, following the tragedy, someone remembered the Dumb Supper and what acquired happened there. That was the cause of it, they said, because the ritual wasn't a casino game after all. It really was powerful, but magic has guidelines, and she broke them. Suddenly thrust in to the role of major caretaker on her behalf family following tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is basically symbolic aside from the one activity that only a sheriff can do: perform a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she are designed for herself. But becoming sheriff is entirely different, and the requirements of the role are even more challenging when she actually is forced to fight society's targets for a female. Soon enough, dark secrets come to light, and Ellie must grapple with small-town superstitions and the tenuous ties she stocks with a condemned killer as she carves out a place for herself within an uncertain future. "There is no one that can compare with Sharyn McCrumb. No one better either" (San Diego Union-Tribune), and her luscious narrative brings her remarkable characters alive with the "natural poetry" (The NY Times Reserve Review) that defines her astounding novels. Prayers the Devil Answers combines masterful historical research and captivating folklore to make an atmospheric and suspenseful head to de force.
