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  <title><![CDATA[If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O]]></title>
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  <default_description>Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her idyll is shattered. Then a local girl who looks like Peggy vanishes without a trace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Although she was once famous, Peggy has no fondness for the old times. Those days are best left forgotten for Spencer Arrowood, too. But sometimes the past can't rest, and those who try to forget it are doomed to relive it....</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sharyn McCrumb]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many of Sharyn McCrumb's mysteries are light and silly (such Bimbos of the Death Sun). This mystery is more serious, and many characters really are emotionally damaged.  Maybe it wasn't what I expected, but this tone and the characters weren't very convincing. (The characteracters in her silly myste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72716315">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 27 12:54:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[FM A famous folk singer attracts a crazy Vietnam vet in another of the series that features Appalachian folk songs.  Exciting and evocative of the Appalachian region.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 31 08:17:14 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachian mysteries featuring Sheriff Underwood.  Her writing is wonderful and her stories are unique and enthralling.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 22 11:56:48 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 17:38:52 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Airplane flights are the main things that make me turn to mysteries (other than Sayers or Tey) and/or chick lit. One novel is rarely enough for a cross-country voyage, although I seem to remember Dickens lasting once.<br/><br/>Peggy Muryan, aging folk singer, moves into a small Appalachian town on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4948206">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 10 15:36:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 24 19:20:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading the book, but I didn't like the ending.  I don't think it gives anything away to say that the main character's choice at the end seemed (to me, anyway) uncharacteristic.  It would have been nice to have some explanation as to why he decided to do what he did.  But as with McCrumb's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29787911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28711770">
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    <name><![CDATA[Cheryl Lali]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 31 02:26:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Small town mystery-- chockablock with quirky characters --that deals with a murdered girl, Vietnam vets, romantic grief and frustration. Some say they figured out the murderer and his/her motivation right away, but I didn't (which is unusual for me.) Very interesting novel that transcends the myster...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28711770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4061103">
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    <name><![CDATA[Janon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Drain, OR]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 03 23:50:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 04 23:46:13 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love all of McCrumb's ballad series. Not necessarily the best writing, nor the most intriguing mysteries, but the way that she weaves together the stories behind each of the folk ballads with the modern-time happenings is just...magic to me.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4061103]]></url>
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    <review id="32888293">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kristy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 23 04:50:45 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ive really liked reading Sharyn McCrumbs books.....this book was a one of her best. ]]></body>
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    <review id="4937568">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another good McCrumb ballad novel.]]></body>
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