Fiddler's Ghost — Mitch Jayne

Fiddler's Ghost, a highly authentic and readable first-person narrative, begins in 1951, when Steve Clark accepts a teaching job in a one-room school in the Missouri Ozarks and moves with his pregnant wife Lacey to the backwoods community of Indian Glade. Surrounded by Ozark characters who remain absorbed with old customs and beliefs and schoolchildren who still speak Elizabethan English, the Clarks move into what they consider an ideal home, though they are forewarned by locals that “The last folks lived there claimed it weren't natural…” Upon encountering their unnatural cohabitant, Steve and Lacey begin to unravel the mystery of the fiddler's ghost. As the novel unfolds and Hiram becomes ever more lifelike, the time-travel connection to music becomes ever more real…