The Witches’ Hammer

Summary

A respected surgeon and rare-book collector is brutallymurdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer thefifteenth-century manual of black magic—a grimoire—he’d received from a gratefulpatient. Now the doctor’s blood is everywhere, and only the priceless grimoireis missing.

The horrific death of her beloved father has shatteredBeatrice O’Connell’s quiet, sane, and orderly world. Only by tracking down thevanished malevolent tome—with its dark spells and salacious illustrations—canshe hope to put things right. But the search is leading Beatrice, herex-husband, and a mysterious occultist into an expanding labyrinth of powerfulevils, a tangled web that reaches as far as the Vatican itself. What covetedsecrets are hidden in the missing volume that threaten to turn Beatrice intoprecisely what her unseen and unrelenting enemies are determined to destroy?