The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb

The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

A strong 4.0/5.0 stars. In 1832, Frankie Silver, 18, a young wife and mother, really a mere slip of a girl, kills her young husband Charlie on a cold, winter day. The town is shocked and angered when they find his body cut up, some pieces burned, others hidden in the snow. She's convicted in a two-day trial, where she's not allowed to speak in her defense, and later hanged for the crime. Interwoven in the book is a second execution, more than 150 years later. The sheriff who is responsible for arresting the prisoner, twenty years earlier, now questions whether he did the right thing. There is something about the earlier case that bothers him, and it is only days before the execution that he figures them both out. The reader is left asking - what will you do for love, who will you protect? What is the role of family to protect us, or to be protected?
Book 112 of 2020. Also on https://xbmill.blogspot.com/

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