Order of Sharyn McCrumb Books

Sharyn McCrumb is an American author of crime fiction, mystery novels and Appalachian fiction. She writes the Elizabeth MacPherson series and the Ballad series. Sharyn has won the Edgar Award, Agatha Award, Nero Award, Anthony Award and Macavity Award for her work. She earned her Master’s Degree in English from Virginia Tech. Her novels have been translated into eleven different languages.

Sharyn McCrumb made her fiction debut in 1984 with the novel Sick of Shadows, which began her Elizabeth MacPherson mystery series. Below is a list of Sharyn McCrumb’s books in order of when they were first published:

Publication Order of Elizabeth MacPherson Books

Sick of Shadows	(1984)
Lovely in Her Bones	(1985)
Highland Laddie Gone	(1986)
Paying the Piper	(1988)
The Windsor Knot	(1990)
Missing Susan	(1991)
MacPherson's Lament	(1992)
If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him...	(1995)
The PMS Outlaws	(2000)

Publication Order of Bombs Of The Death Sun Books

Bimbos of the Death Sun	(1987)
Zombies of the Gene Pool	(1992)

Publication Order of Ballad Books

If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O	(1990)
The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter	(1992)
She Walks These Hills	(1994)
The Rosewood Casket	(1996)
The Ballad of Frankie Silver	(1998)
The Songcatcher	(2001)
Ghost Riders	(2003)
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers	(2010)
The Ballad of Tom Dooley	(2011)
King's Mountain	(2013)
Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past	(2014)
Prayers the Devil Answers	(2016)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

St. Dale	(2005)
Once Around the Track	(2007)
Faster Pastor	(2010)
The Unquiet Grave	(2017)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Our Separate Days	(1989)
Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories	(1997)
Fairy Tale Princesses of the Civil War: Rattler and Celtic Magic	(2012)

Publication Order of Anthologies

Malice Domestic 7

(1998)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia

(2011)

Notes: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O was also published as If Ever I Return. Faster Pastor was co-authored by Adam Edwards.

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Sharyn McCrumb Synopses: Sharyn McCrumb’s Appalachia is a non-fiction book, collecting the essays of Sharyn McCrumb. The collection includes Keepers of the Legends, A Novelist Looks at the Land, The Celts and the Appalachians, Magic Realism in Appalachia, Nora Bonesteel and the Sight, and Reflections on Historical Fiction.

Our Separate Days by Sharyn McCrumb is a collection of both short stories and poems about life in southern Appalachia.

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