title: A Fever in Salem: A New Interpretation of the New England Witch Trials
author: Laurie Winn Carlson
description: Carlson turns to tackle a phenomenon that has engrossed and frightened generations. (Barbara Lloyd McMichael <i>The Seattle Times</i>)<br /><br />A fascinating, refreshing reassessment of one of the most bizarre episodes in American history. (<i>The A-List</i>)<br /><br />What an intriguing hypothesis! (Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer; author of I Heard the Sirens Scream)<br /><br />This book will send historians and epidemiologists scurrying back to the drawing board. (Katrina L. Kelner, Editor, <i>Science Magazine<i>)<br /><br />Ms. Carlson writes well, at times, even humorously. (Phoebe-Lou Adams <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>)<br /><br />Meticulously researched...marshals her arguments with clarity and persuasive force. (John Banville <i>The New Yorker</i>)<br /><br />Provocative, informative, and dramatic...packed with epidemiological evidence and studded with convincing figures and maps. (Nan Sumner-Mack <i>Providence Journal</i>)<br /><br />A medical mystery that will intrigue both the epidemiologist-historian detectives and the lay reader. (Robert S. Desowitz, Professor of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina and author of <i>Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria?<i>)
  						    	
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zlib_text: _**The witches, they are real...**_
  
  A series of bizarre assaults is mystifying Boston police: an unknown attacker
  is viciously beating random strangers and leaving a note quoting an old
  warning about witchcraft. History professor Alex Maple was one of the victims,
  and now he’s gone missing. Vickie Preston is certain that someone has taken
  her friend for malicious purposes. She’s having blood-drenched visions that
  seem to be staining her waking life, and the escalating attacks suggest that a
  dangerous cult is at work behind the scenes—a cult so powerful that its
  members would rather die than be apprehended.
  
  Vickie is grateful to have Special Agent Griffin Pryce and the FBI’s elite
  Krewe of Hunters on her side. She and Griffin are finding their way in an
  increasingly passionate relationship, and Griffin is desperately trying to
  keep her safe and the two of them sane amid the disturbing investigation. The
  search for Alex will take them deep into the wilderness of Massachusetts on
  the tr