If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O

The first novel of the acclaimed "Ballard" series. When 1960's folk singer Peggy Muryan moves to a small Tennessee town seeking solitude, terror follows her--and so does trouble for the town's sheriff. From the author of "The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter" and "She Walks These Hills". A "New York Times" Notable Book.
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.

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.

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....