num_pages: 316
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. 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....
language: English
title: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O
titlecomplete: If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad Mystery, #1)
genres: Historical, Suspense, Thriller, Historical Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Music, Southern, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 3578
places: Tennessee
series: Ballad
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books