The Bookstore Murders
- Acclaimed contemporary novel, in hardcover and paperback.
- Literary Guild Alternate Selection; laudatory reviews.
- Optioned for TV movie.
1st Pub: Simon & Schuster as The Torching.
- Acclaimed contemporary novel, in hardcover and paperback.
- Literary Guild Alternate Selection; laudatory reviews.
- Optioned for TV movie.
1st Pub: Simon & Schuster as The Torching.
Praise for The Bookstore Murders:
• Washington Post Book World: “Because of Heidish's skill, we get the full force of her double-whammy...in part due to the grace with which she weaves the present-day and the historical, but also because of her inventiveness at the book's close, the daring way she gets both strands of plot to unite.... Marcy Heidish is a stylish and intelligent novelist to boot, more than up to the dizzying, tale-spinning task that she set for herself here.”
• Kirkus Reviews: “Shuddery mystery-suspense with super-natural overtones.”
• Library Journal: “Intricately constructed...A deliciously spine-tingling, multi-layered literary mystery...”
• Publishers Weekly (Starred Review): “Subtle and gratifying psychological suspense…. Penetrating characterizations … Heidish impeccably orchestrates the historical and contemporary, the supernatural and psychological.”
•Simon & Schuster: With this spellbinding tale of mysticism, horror, and history, a gifted, award-winning writer ... here gives us a novel to rival the works of Anne Rice, Alfred Hitchcock, or Edgar Allan Poe — a vivid tale of an eighteenth-century midwife ... sentenced to burn as a witch in the tiny town of Maidstone, Maryland.... The Torching is an unforgettable novel about the power of words...”
• Baltimore Sun: "Fine, goose-pimply."
• Denver Post: "A macabre ride...Eerie...Intriguing...Frightening surprises... Enjoy."
• Arizona Daily Star: "An imaginative, amazing writer...A magician with words."
• New York Daily News: "Compellingly readable and likely to induce the screaming-meemies."
• Judithb, Amazon.com Book Review: In this tale of history, horror and mysticism, events from more than 250 years ago take on a terrifying reality in the life of a 1990's woman....
This well written book is skillfully and compellingly plotted, bringing the harsh, puritanical town of Maidstone in the 1730's as vividly to life as modern Georgetown. It seems greed, jealousy, and the lengths to which people will go to avoid being found out haven't changed at all.
If you like your thrillers with a bit of a spooky and mystical edge, this is for you....and now I'm eager to read more of her work.
• "A Customer," Amazon.com Book Review--Unique story of parallel mysteries, characters, events: This book is actually two stories--one takes place in the early 1990s Washington, D.C. and the other in 1738 Maidstone, MD.
Marcy Heidish skilfully intertwines the two stories into one story with two parallel mysteries, characters, events, and with a touch of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. Other authors have tried this, and it often results in a choppy story, as the reader is pulled back and forth between the stories. Heidish is a success because I never had to go back to an earlier part of the novel to remind myself what had happened to the 20th century characters....
This book is a good, fast read (I finished over a single weekend). I thought that the characters, both the heroines (& heros) and the villains were well developed, and I liked the storylines (both the 18th & 20th centuries).
• Washington Post Book World: “Because of Heidish's skill, we get the full force of her double-whammy...in part due to the grace with which she weaves the present-day and the historical, but also because of her inventiveness at the book's close, the daring way she gets both strands of plot to unite.... Marcy Heidish is a stylish and intelligent novelist to boot, more than up to the dizzying, tale-spinning task that she set for herself here.”
• Kirkus Reviews: “Shuddery mystery-suspense with super-natural overtones.”
• Library Journal: “Intricately constructed...A deliciously spine-tingling, multi-layered literary mystery...”
• Publishers Weekly (Starred Review): “Subtle and gratifying psychological suspense…. Penetrating characterizations … Heidish impeccably orchestrates the historical and contemporary, the supernatural and psychological.”
•Simon & Schuster: With this spellbinding tale of mysticism, horror, and history, a gifted, award-winning writer ... here gives us a novel to rival the works of Anne Rice, Alfred Hitchcock, or Edgar Allan Poe — a vivid tale of an eighteenth-century midwife ... sentenced to burn as a witch in the tiny town of Maidstone, Maryland.... The Torching is an unforgettable novel about the power of words...”
• Baltimore Sun: "Fine, goose-pimply."
• Denver Post: "A macabre ride...Eerie...Intriguing...Frightening surprises... Enjoy."
• Arizona Daily Star: "An imaginative, amazing writer...A magician with words."
• New York Daily News: "Compellingly readable and likely to induce the screaming-meemies."
• Judithb, Amazon.com Book Review: In this tale of history, horror and mysticism, events from more than 250 years ago take on a terrifying reality in the life of a 1990's woman....
This well written book is skillfully and compellingly plotted, bringing the harsh, puritanical town of Maidstone in the 1730's as vividly to life as modern Georgetown. It seems greed, jealousy, and the lengths to which people will go to avoid being found out haven't changed at all.
If you like your thrillers with a bit of a spooky and mystical edge, this is for you....and now I'm eager to read more of her work.
• "A Customer," Amazon.com Book Review--Unique story of parallel mysteries, characters, events: This book is actually two stories--one takes place in the early 1990s Washington, D.C. and the other in 1738 Maidstone, MD.
Marcy Heidish skilfully intertwines the two stories into one story with two parallel mysteries, characters, events, and with a touch of the supernatural thrown in for good measure. Other authors have tried this, and it often results in a choppy story, as the reader is pulled back and forth between the stories. Heidish is a success because I never had to go back to an earlier part of the novel to remind myself what had happened to the 20th century characters....
This book is a good, fast read (I finished over a single weekend). I thought that the characters, both the heroines (& heros) and the villains were well developed, and I liked the storylines (both the 18th & 20th centuries).