The Witching Tree: Natalie Lockhart Series, Book 3
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Alice Blanchard. (2021). The Witching Tree: Natalie Lockhart Series, Book 3. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alice Blanchard. 2021. The Witching Tree: Natalie Lockhart Series, Book 3. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Alice Blanchard, The Witching Tree: Natalie Lockhart Series, Book 3. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

Alice Blanchard. The Witching Tree: Natalie Lockhart Series, Book 3. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2021.

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   • bioText: Alice Blanchard is an award-winning author. She has received a PEN Award, a New Letters Literary Award, a Centrum Artists-in-Residence Fellowship, and a Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, Darkness Peering, was a New York Times' Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery book. Her work has been published in 17 countries.
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Welcome to Burning Lake, a small, isolated town with a dark history of witches and false accusations. Now, a modern-day witch has been murdered, and Detective Natalie Lockhart is reluctantly drawn deep into the case, in this atmospheric mystery from Alice Blanchard, The Witching Tree.
As legend has it, if you carve your deepest desire into the bark of a Witch Tree, then over time as the tree grows, it will swallow the carvings until only a witch can read them.
Until now.
Detective Natalie Lockhart gained unwanted notoriety when she and her family became front and center of not one, but two sensational murder cases. Now she's lost her way. Burned out and always looking over her shoulder, Natalie desperately thinks that quitting the police force is her only option left.
All that changes when a beloved resident—a practicing Wiccan and founder of the town's oldest coven—is killed in a fashion more twisted and shocking than Natalie has ever seen before, leaving the town reeling. Natalie has no choice but to help solve the case along with Detective Luke Pittman, her boss and the old childhood friend she cannot admit she loves, even to herself. There is a silent, malignant presence in Burning Lake that will not rest. And what happens next will shock the whole town, and Natalie, to the core.

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     "The novel captivated me from the beginning to its shocking finish. Wow!"

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   • content: "Though readers may fear Burning Lake, they also won't want to leave. "
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "Jodi Picoult's fans will be an apt audience for Blanchard's chilling latest."
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   • content: "For fans of Erica Spindler."
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   • content: "Readers will welcome a return to Burning Lake with Natalie at the helm."
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   • content: "Lockhart is a relatable new heroine on the police-procedural scene, and one who will appeal to readers of Tana French."
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   • source: Kirkus Review
   • content: "A fast-paced, intricate, and atmospheric mystery that introduces a plucky, engaging detective."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Flush with red herrings, Wiccan symbols, and disaffected teens, this book will appeal to fans of criminal investigations led by empowered women."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "What seems an open-and-shut case becomes much more, with Blanchard carefully peeling away layers of history and deception before pulling off a shocking twist. Lockhart is a relatable new heroine on the police-procedural scene, and one who will appeal to readers of Tana French."
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    • source: Kristen Lepionka, Shamus Award-winning author of the Roxane Wearymystery series
    • content: "Layered with old wounds, new secrets, and tension that starts on the first page and never lets up."
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      July 1, 2021
      

      In remote Burning Lake, long known for both its witches and its dangerous accusations thereof, the honored citizen who runs the town's oldest coven has been murdered, and Det. Natalie Lockhart gets the case. She wishes she hadn't--she's still unsettled by two notorious murder cases that involved her family--but it's clear that some evil presence now pervades the town. Next in a series launched with A Trace of Evil, a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery and New York Times Notable Book; with a 35,000-copy first printing.

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      October 25, 2021
      Set in Burning Lake, N.Y., Blanchard’s creepy third novel featuring police detective Natalie Lockhart (after 2020’s The Wicked Hour) infuses a procedural with an ambient horror vibe. When Veronica Manes, a white light Wiccan and the beloved leader of one of the two traditional covens in town, is found murdered along the train tracks, dressed in a Halloween witch costume, Natalie, who was planning to resign from the force after the emotional burden of her personal involvement in two earlier murder cases, decides instead to join the investigation alongside Lt. Det. Luke Pittman, with whom she shares an awkward, more than collegial closeness. The most obvious suspects are the couple who misused a local minister’s crash space to party and perform dark rituals, but Natalie’s search uncovers some Burning Lake history tied to a centuries-old curse that points elsewhere. Though the winding investigative path keeps the reader invested throughout, Blanchard frustratingly abandons a firm resolution to the case in favor of a pile of loose ends that ramp up the multivolume arc of dread. This is not the place to start for newcomers. Agent: Jill Marr, Sandra Dijkstra Agency.

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As legend has it, if you carve your deepest desire into the bark of a Witch Tree, then over time as the tree grows, it will swallow the carvings until only a witch can read them.
Until now.
Detective Natalie Lockhart gained unwanted notoriety when she and her family became front and center of not one, but two sensational murder cases. Now she's lost her way. Burned out and always looking over her shoulder, Natalie desperately thinks that quitting the police force is her only option left.
All that changes when a beloved resident—a practicing Wiccan and founder of the town's oldest coven—is killed in a fashion more twisted and shocking than Natalie has...

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