![]() ![]() ![]() McCrumb is obviously very interested in folk tales, ghost stories and the Celtic telling of these stories, both in Europe and as the stories have been re-told in America. There are various characters, past and present, whose lives intertwine briefly in interesting and occasionally surprising ways. ![]() One of these stories has a direct influence on the present. The narratives set in the past are linked by a chance meeting but still remain separate tales. In Ghost Riders there are two separate tales from the past and a storyline set in the present. Usually in the “modern” story there is a mystery which the story in the past fleshes out or provides with a new insight. In the other books, the storyline goes back and forth between past and present, the stories linked sometimes obviously and sometimes tenuously. Ghost Riders is the latest novel in Sharyn McCrumb’s “Ballad Series.” Ghost Riders is different from the others in the series in that there is no mystery (in the “mystery novel” sense of the word) to be solved. ![]()
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