12 Books More Scandalous Than Scandal

You don't have to be guilty to be burned at the stake. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra comes this twisted psychological thriller of America's first widespread panic: the 1692 Massachusetts witch hunt that left 20 men and women dead. When a minister's daughter began to convulse and scream, friends accused friends and families turned on one another, accusing parents and children of witchcraft. Less than a year later with the mystery still unsolved, the Salem Witch Trials, which concluded in the wake of subdued panic and death, shaped the colonies' futures.