The Lost Book of Salem - Katherine Howe - paranormal

You are bidding on a brand new copy of The Lost Book of Salem – a novel – by Katherine Howe.

A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history – the Salem witch trials.

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest – to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artefact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.

As the pieces of Deliverance’s harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem’s dark past than she could have ever imagined.

Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Lost Book of Salem travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman’s story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation.

“A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats, here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe’s talent is spellbinding.” – Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow and The Dante Club