The Taking of Annie Thorne: 'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail - Softcover

Tudor, C. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718187466 ISBN 13: 9780718187460

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2019

Synopsis

The haunting new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man

'It's not the dead you need to be scared of, love. It's the living'

It arrived in my inbox just over a month ago. Surprising really that it didn't get shunted straight into junk.

Sender: MSG@hotmail.com

Subject: Annie

'I know what happened to your sister. It's happening again.'

Because when my sister was eight years old, she disappeared. At the time, I thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen.

And then she came back . . .

PREORDER the next spine-tingling, sinister thriller from THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author of The Chalk Man.

Praise for The Chalk Man:

'If you like my stuff, you'll like this' STEPHEN KING

'Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck' LEE CHILD

'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times

'There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail

'[I] haven't had a sleepless night due to a book in a long time. The Chalk Man changed that' FIONA BARTON, bestselling author of The Widow and The Child

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Review

Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time . . . The Taking of Annie Thorne is terrific in every way (Lee Child)

Confirms Tudor as Britain's female Stephen King. There is a creeping dread on every page and, as you start a new chapter, a dark shadow over your shoulder. Tudor's punk prose style and her great eye for menace make this a book no one should read at night. (Daily Mail)

There is no sign of second-album syndrome: the mix of grotty provincial realism and amateur cold-case sleuthing works just as well here (The Sunday Times)

As enjoyable and well written as her first, The Chalk Man (Daily Mirror)

Dark, gothic and utterly compelling, The Taking of Annie Thorne pulls off a rare combination - an atmosphere of unsettling evil along with richly nuanced characterisation (J. P. Delaney, bestselling author of The Girl Before)

Tudor's 2018 The Chalk Man was a standout mystery novel with a fresh voice and a spooky plot. This is even better (Washington Post)

Shows that her excellent The Chalk Man was no one-off in matching Stephen King for creepiness (Sunday Express's Bestseller Predictions 2019)

From the author of The Chalk Man comes an equally creepy story about missing children (Woman & Home)

Spine-tingling (Sunday Post)

Spine tinglingly good (Amy Lloyd, bestselling author of The Innocent Wife)

From the Back Cover

The new spine-tingling, sinister thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man. One night, Annie went missing. Disappeared from her own bed. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, after forty-eight hours, she came back. But she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her. Something happened to my sister. I can't explain what. I just know that when she came back, she wasn't the same. She wasn't my Annie. I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that sometimes I was scared to death of my own little sister.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0718187466
• ISBN 13: 9780718187460
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352