Rereading Sharyn McCrumb

I'm rereading one of the novels of Sharyn McCrumb, one of my favorite authors. The 1997 book, The Rosewood Casket, is the first one she authored that read, and after that I proceeded to read her entire 'ballad novel' series, as she calls it. Fictional Hamelin Tennessee, in mountain country, is the setting of all the ballad novels and her characters seem truly real to me.