The Vanishing Bookstore: Salem, Witches, and Mystery with Helen Phifer

author Helen Phifer chats about her new book The Vanishing Bookstore

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About The Vanishing Bookstore

1692. On the outskirts of Salem, a bookstore stands covered in overgrown vines. Inside, a young woman hides a linen-wrapped journal under a loose floorboard and runs away, panicked by the sound of hounds barking in the distance. The bookstore vanishes into thin air…

Present day. Stepping inside a pale-pink house on one of the oldest streets in Salem, Dora can’t believe she’s about to finally meet the mother she thought died tragically when she was just a child. But the excitement is short-lived. Dora’s mother has fear in her eyes, and with a trembling voice she whispers: ‘my life is in danger, and now so is yours…’

Desperate not to lose her mother all over again, Dora digs into her family’s mysterious past, and stumbles upon a seemingly impossible secret: the key to their survival is hidden in a bookstore that no one has seen for generations.

Losing herself amongst thorny brackens and twisted ferns, Dora eventually finds the path that leads to the bookstore. But someone is watching her. They’ve been waiting for her.

As she pushes open the beautiful blue door hidden amongst the sharp brambles, and stands in front of rows of crumbling leatherbound books with faded pages, she has no idea of the secrets she is about to uncover. Or that her life is in more danger than ever before…

Readers will lose themselves in the mesmerising magic of this absorbing and utterly unputdownable page-turner. Perfect for fans of Weyward, The Lost Apothecary and Practical Magic.

Book Review

This book starts off with a bang.

We are thrown into the world of the English women (I can’t lie, I found their last name very confusing at first). In the opening scenes we find out we are in Salem, MA just in time for the witch hunts.

The switches back and forth between the past lives of our main characters and their present lives. I say “their” in the plural sense. We follow Dora and her family as they try to prevent the events that trigger their deaths and reincarnations.

I very much enjoyed this book! If you like mysteries, witches, and stories of finding ourselves then you will like this book too.