A review by janetlun
The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel by Sharyn McCrumb

I generally really enjoy McCrumb's books. This one was just interesting enough to keep me reading, but just barely. She's decided to write a polemic about how Big City Northern Journalists Lie and Slander Good Honest Southern People, and boy howdy does she hammer you over the head with it. She'd be much more effective in achieving her goal if she just wrote the action to reveal that, but she does that _and_ has virtually every character do an info dump on the topic, too. It gets very tiresome.