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Title: The Witch of Napoli

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Michael Schmicker

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 60 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

Italy, 1899: Fiery-tempered, seductive medium Alessandra Poverelli levitates a table at a Spiritualist séance in Naples. A reporter photographs the miracle, and wealthy, skeptical psychiatrist Camillo Lombardi arrives in Naples to investigate. When she materializes the ghost of his dead mother, he risks his reputation and fortune to finance a tour of the Continent, challenging the scientific and academic elite of Europe to test Alessandra's mysterious powers. She will help him rewrite science. His fee will help her escape her sadistic husband, Pigotti, and start a new life in Rome.

Newspapers across Europe trumpet her Cinderella story and baffling successes, and the public demands to know: Does the "Queen of Spirits" really have supernatural powers? Nigel Huxley is convinced that she's simply another vulgar Italian trickster. The icy, aristocratic detective for England's Society for the Investigation of Mediums launches a plot to trap and expose her.

Inspired by the true-life story of celebrated Italian medium Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918), The Witch of Napoli masterfully resurrects the bitter 19th-century battle between science and religion over the possibility of an afterlife.

Critic Reviews:

"Impressive...an enchanting, graceful narrative that will absorb readers from the first page." (Kirkus)

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