Hidden Salem

February 24, 2020
Nellie Cavendish, the heroine of bestseller Hooper’s disappointing 19th Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel (after 2018’s Hold Back the Dark), has always felt she was different. Her mother disappeared when she was a toddler, and her father kept her at a distance. On her 29th birthday, Nellie receives a letter from her late father, who left the letter with a lawyer shortly before his death a decade earlier, urging her to go to the Appalachian town of Salem, where the Cavendish family has its roots, before she turns 30. Nellie, who knows nothing of her family history and has only an inkling of her potential powers, travels to Salem, where everyone has psychic abilities. Meanwhile, the ruthless Duncan Cavendish regards Nellie, the last of the Cavendish line, as a threat to his plot to take over the town and will do anything to stop her before she comes into full control of her psychic powers on her 30th birthday. Two Bishop/SCU agents assist Nellie in her battle with Duncan. The only surprise in this story of good versus evil is the anticlimactic ending. Even series fans will feel cheated. Agent: Eileen Fallon, Fallon Literary.

November 1, 2019

Though he's a veteran of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit, Grayson Sheridan still feels uneasy when he arrives in Salem, MA, to investigate the disappearance of three strangers amid reports of Satanic activities. Nellie Cavendish has also come to town, bothered by crows and electronic equipment that shorts at her touch. Nellie is following her long-dead father' exhortatoin that she do something about the evil in Salem--before her 30th birthday. From the New York Times best-selling author.

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