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The Diviner's Tale
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" 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 StraubCustomers Also Bought
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- ISBN-13: 9780547758657
- ISBN-10: 0547758650
- Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 320
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