Cinderwich
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Apex Book Company
Published:11th Jun '24
Should be back in stock very soon
“Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?”
Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer.
Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie’s lost aunt, Judith’s long-gone lover. But they’re not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than a skeleton itself, are staunchly resistant to the outsiders’ questions about Ellen and her killer. And the deeper the two women dig, the more rot they unearth … the closer they come to exhuming the evil that lies, hungering, at the roots of Cinderwich.
"Cinderwich gifts readers with a bit of a haunted tree folktale, some true crime detecting, a frustrated ghost, and a couple of academic ladies with a sometimes prickly friendship who are more than willing to sit through countless diner dinners to get to a much-needed truth." - Locus Magazine
“Verdict: Crisp scholarly dryness pairs perfectly with barely contained drama and a potent smidge of urban legend horror.” - Library Journal STARRED (Audio review)
"Crisp scholarly dryness pairs perfectly with barely contained drama and a potent smidge of urban legend horror." - Library Journal
“A good solid story in the gothic tradition.” - Redhatcatreviews.blog
“Cinderwich is a fantastic, spooky treasure from Cherie Priest — a mystery wrapped in Appalachian lore and family secrets, with so much heart. An absolute must read.” - Fran Wilde, double Nebula winner and author of The Book of Gems
“CINDERWICH is, at its heart, a compelling story of loss and the lengths we'll go to reckon with it, and it's a hell of a creepy ghost story too.” - Kelly Baker, author of Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness
ISBN: 9781955765206
Dimensions: 203mm x 127mm x 25mm
Weight: 272g
184 pages