If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him - (Elizabeth MacPherson) by Sharyn McCrumb (Paperback)

About the Book

"If I'd killed him when I met him . . . I'd be out of jail by now". That's the lament of two women suspected of husband-killing in crime-solving forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson's most challenging--and chilling--case.

Book Synopsis

When forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson becomes the official P.I. for her brother Bill's fledgling Virginia law firm, she quickly takes on two complex cases. Eleanor Royden, a perfect lawyer's wife for twenty years, has shot her ex-husband and his wife in cold blood. And Donna Jean Morgan is implicated in the death of her Bible-thumping bigamist husband.

Bill's feminist firebrand partner, A. P. Hill, does her damnedest for Eleanor, an abused wife in denial, and Bill gallantly defends Donna Jean. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's forensic expertise, including her special knowledge of poisons, gives her the most challenging case of her career. . . .

Review Quotes

"Sharyn McCrumb is a born storyteller."
--MARY HIGGINS CLARK

"Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic."
--The New York Times Book Review

"She manages not only to make a reader laugh out loud but also to shed a tear or two, especially over the remarkable Eleanor Royden."
--The Washington Post Book World

About the Author

Sharyn McCrumb is an internationally acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose work has been honored with all five of the major awards in crime fiction (Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity, and Nero)--and two Best Appalachian Novel awards. She is the creator of the Ballad Novel series, which began with If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O. The most recent installment in her satirical mystery series featuring forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson is If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him . . . . She is also the author of the short story collection Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

Ms. McCrumb lives in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains with her husband, David, and their two younger children, less than a hundred miles from the Smoky Mountain valley where her ancestors settled in 1790.