The Diviner's Tale

A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A --Cleveland Plain Dealer

Subtle, distinctive and well-wrought. --Washington Post

Hired by a developer to dowse a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks comes upon a girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities, however, the body has vanished, calling into question her sanity--at least until a dazed, mute girl emerges from the woods, alive and eerily reminiscent of Cassandra's vision of the hanged girl. Increasingly bizarre divinations ensue, leading Cassandra back to a past she thought long behind her, locking her in a mortal chess match with a killer who has returned from the past to haunt her once more.

Sublime . . . creates a seamless breathing breathtaking unity of the literary and the suspense novel, detonating the very notion of genre. Riveting, insightful, sentence-by-sentence charged with feeling, it bears us, helpless, with it on its downward journey to illumination. --Peter Straub

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 03/27/2012
ISBN: 9780547758657
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.90d