Kay Hooper is the award-winning author of “Sleeping with Fear,” “Stealing Shadows,” and more than ten other novels of suspense and intrigue along with dozens of other books. Her first book “The Lady Thief” was published in 1981 and since then she has published over 70 books. She made The New York Times Best Sellers List in 2000 with “Stealing Shadows” and was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best Original P.I. Paperback for “House of Cards,” part of The Bishop Series. Her new book “Hidden Salem” (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit) is about a town shrouded in the occult and an evil that lurks in the dark. (amazon, 2021)

“Hidden Salem” – Nellie Cavendish has good reasons to seek out her roots. Not only because she has no memory of her mother but she hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very odd things have begun to happen. Crows gather near her wherever she goes, electronics short out when she touches them, and when she is upset, really upset, it storms. At first, she chalked up the unusual happenings to coincidence, but that explanation does not begin to cover the vivid nightmares that torment her. She can no longer pretend to ignore them. She has to find out the truth. And the only starting point she has is a mysterious letter from her father delivered ten years after his death, insisting she go to a town called Salem and risk her life to stop some unnamed evil. Before her thirtieth birthday.

As a longtime member of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit, Grayson Sheridan has learned not to be surprised by the unusual and the macabre–but Salem is different. Evidence of Satanic activities and the disappearance of three strangers are what brought Salem to the attention of the SCU, and when Gray arrives to find his undercover partner vanished, he knows that whatever is hiding in the seemingly peaceful little town is deadly.  But what actually hides in the shadows and secrets of Salem is unlike anything the agents have ever encountered.