The Witches Hammer, Jane Stanton Hitchcock
The Witches Hammer, Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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The Witches' Hammer

Author: Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie

Unabridged: 12 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

A respected surgeon and rare-book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer the fifteenth-century manual of black magica grimoirehed received from a grateful patient. Now the doctors blood is everywhere, and only the priceless grimoire is missing. The horrific death of her beloved father has shattered Beatrice OConnells quiet, sane, and orderly world. Only by tracking down the vanished malevolent tomewith its dark spells and salacious illustrationscan she hope to put things right. But the search is leading Beatrice, her ex-husband, and a mysterious occultist into an expanding labyrinth of powerful evils, a tangled web that reaches as far as the Vatican itself. What coveted secrets are hidden in the missing volume that threaten to turn Beatrice into precisely what her unseen and unrelenting enemies are determined to destroy?

About Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Jane Stanton Hitchcock is the New York Times bestselling author of Mortal Friends, The Witches' Hammer, Social Crimes, and Trick of the Eye, as well as several plays. She lives with her husband, syndicated foreign-affairs columnist Jim Hoagland, in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela on June 24, 2008

The lesson I learned from reading The Witches' Hammer is this: just because it says 'Hitchcock' on the cover, no matter how much I may want it to, this does not mean I'm about to read a deliciously complicated mystery worthy of old Alfred. And this is my own damn fault, because a big part of why I b......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on February 02, 2019

So far I have read several books by Jane Stanton Hitchcock and enjoyed all of them "The Witches' Hammer" is totally different from the others I have read. It's tells a fascinating tale but felt more like a conspiracy theory involving ancient books used by a fanatical Vatican splinter group. Not real......more

Goodreads review by Anna on April 22, 2009

Periodically, I'll read books solely because the title grabs me. Case in point: "The Witches' Hammer". As it turns out, the book is a mystery in the Knights Templar/church mythology genre, which was a pleasant surprise. I wish I could say the same after having read the book. The premise of the book......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on July 30, 2012

I found this a very unusual, confounding, but ultimately quite enjoyable read. The book starts out well, with the murder of the the father of the main character - Beatrice [that's not a spoiler - it's noted right in the book's jacket] setting off a chain of ominous and exciting events that turn her p......more

Goodreads review by Steven on September 19, 2007

Not the best book I've read, but engaging. I reacted to this the same way I did to DAVINCI CODE--not the most technically strong book with many flaws (1D and 2D characters, "coinky-dinks" up the wazoo, serious suspension of disbelief moments, etc.) but it kept me turning the pages through to the end......more

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