The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.

It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death.

The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.

As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story -- the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 10/27/2015
ISBN: 9780316200608
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.50d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2015 pg. 55
Entertainment Weekly 08/14/2015 pg. 66
Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 118
Booklist 09/01/2015 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 09/07/2015 pg. 58
Christianity Today 10/01/2015 pg. 74
Entertainment Weekly 10/30/2015 pg. 66
New York Times Book Review 11/01/2015 pg. 14
New York Times Book Review 12/03/2015 pg. 21
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2016 pg. 7
Library Journal 05/15/2015