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From New York Times best-selling creator Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in 19th-century West Virginia, based on the true storyline of one of the strangest murder trials in American record - the truth of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Carrying out a suicide try out and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney Wayne P. D. Gardner detects himself under the treatment of Dr. Wayne Boozer. Fresh out of medical college, Dr. Boozer is wanting to try the new communicating cure for insanity and motivates his elderly patient to reminisce about his experiences as the first dark-colored attorney to apply legislation in 19th-century West Virginia. Gardner's most remarkable case was the main one where he helped to defend a white man on trial for the murder of his young bride-to-be - an instance that the prosecution based on the testimony of the ghost. Greenbrier, West Virginia, 1897 Beautiful, willful Zona Heaster has always lived in the mountains of West Virginia. Despite her mother's misgivings, Zona marries Erasmus Trout Shue, the good-looking blacksmith who has recently come to Greenbrier Region. After weeks of silence from the newlyweds, riders come to the Heasters' place to tell them that Zona has perished from a show up, attributed to a recent disease. Mary Jane is set to get justice on her behalf daughter. A month following the funeral, she informs the state prosecutor that Zona's ghost appeared to her, saying that she have been murdered. An autopsy, bought by the reluctant prosecutor, confirms her lay claim. The Greenbrier Ghost is renowned in American folklore, but Sharyn McCrumb is the first creator to look beneath the story to unearth the reality. Using a hundred years of genealogical materials and other historical documents, McCrumb uncovers new information about the storyline and brings to life the personalities in the trial: the prosecutor, a past Confederate cavalryman; the protection law firm, a pro-Union bridgeburner who nevertheless got held slaves; and the mother of the murdered female, who doggedly sticks to her ghost storyline - all seen through the sight of a young black lawyer on the cusp of a fresh century, with his own tragedies yet to come. With its unique mixture of masterful research and mesmerizing folklore, illuminating the story's attractive and complex character types, The Unquiet Grave confirms Sharyn McCrumb's place among the best possible Southern writers at the job today.
