A splendidly written mystery a compelling story Grade A Cleveland Plain Dealer Subtle distinctive and well-wrought Washington PostHired 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 sanityat least until a dazed mute girl emerges from the woods alive and eerily reminiscent of Cassandras 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 moreSublime 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 Straub.
