Sharyn McCrumb takes one of the strangest legal cases in US history (the only case where a "ghost" was allowed to testify") along with West Virginia folklore and history and presents a hauntingly beautiful fictionalized story of the main figures in the story. I'm not just saying this because I'm a native West Virginian, but this has become one of my favorite reads and am hopeful that another one of my book groups will read it in the future.