Salem Falls - Hardcover

Gripping ... you'll be riveted by this multilayered tale of small-town intrigue. Glamour on SALEM FALLS "Gripping -- you'll be riveted by this multilayered tale of small-town intrigue." - Glamour "Genuinely suspenseful -- remarkably original." - Publishers Weekly Genuinely suspenseful ... remarkably original Publishers Weekly on SALEM FALLS Picoult's characters are so compelling that the reader hopes this won't be the last time we meet USA Today "This is the book you will want to read this summer -- Salem Falls is one of those books you can't put down. On every page there is a twist, a revelation, a surprise, a pay-off, placing it firmly in the category of Page-Turner -- It has romance, heartbreak, mystery, spookiness, and even a good dose of moral dilemmas - everything a good novel needs." -- Ann Hood, Providence Journal "Secrets, slowly revealed, are what makes this novel compelling -- Right when the reader feels s/he has figured out all the mysteries and tied up the last loose string, Picoult leaves one final surprise for the last paragraph." -- BookPage It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong Washington Post The research is convincing, the plotting taut, the scenes wonderfully vivid People on PLAIN TRUTH This astonishing novel is beautifully and thoughtfully written Good Housekeeping on MY SISTER'S KEEPER

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life. He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history...