The Burning Girls
The chilling gothic thriller from the bestselling author, now on Netflix
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4.3 • 141 Ratings
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
** NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON AND RUBY STOKES**
If you see the Burning Girls something bad will befall you...
'A mesmerising and atmospheric page-turner, with plenty of shocks and a surprise twist for a finale. Her best novel yet' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on' CHRIS WHITAKER
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500 years ago: eight martyrs burned
30 years ago: two teenagers vanished
Two months ago: a vicar died mysteriously
Welcome to Chapel Croft.
For Rev Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it's a fresh start. New job, new home. But in a close-knit community old superstitions and a mistrust of outsiders mean treading carefully.
Yet right away Jack has more frightening concerns.
Why did no one say the last vicar killed himself? Why is Flo plagued by visions of burning girls? And who is sending them threatening messages?
Old ghosts with scores to settle can never rest. And Jack is standing in their way . . .
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'Tudor operates on the border between credulity and disbelief, creating an atmosphere of menace' Sunday Times
'A gothic, spine-tingling roller-coaster of a story . . . CJ Tudor is a master of horror' C.J. COOKE, author of The Nesting
'The best book yet from C. J. Tudor' Best
Praise for C. J. Tudor:
'C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next' Harlan Coben
'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail
'A mesmerizingly chilling and atmospheric page-turner' J.P. Delaney
'Her books have the ability to simultaneously make you unable to stop reading while wishing you could bury the book somewhere deep underground where it can't be found. Compelling and haunting' Sunday Express
'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' Lee Child
'A dark star is born' A. J. Finn
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With titles including 2018 bestseller The Chalk Man, C. J. Tudor has proved herself an accomplished writer of all things creepy, chilling and utterly compelling. The Burning Girls feels like her most ambitious book yet and underlines why she’s been feted as a British Stephen King. Tudor takes us to Chapel Croft—one of those beautiful-but-baleful villages inhabited by a close-knit community haunted by and guarding dreadful secrets. New to town are Rev Jack Brooks and his courageous teenage daughter Flo, who quickly begin the understand the generations-old horrors plaguing the village and the threat to their own lives. This provincial noir excels thanks largely to Tudor’s rare ability to amp up the suspense and scares gradually. We’re drip-fed Chapel Croft’s secrets until it reaches a glorious, terrifying crescendo.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rarely have the secrets of an English village been used to greater effect than in this tautly suspenseful mystery from Thriller Award winner Tudor (The Other People). When the Rev. Jack Brooks, a widow with a 14-year-old daughter, Flo, is ordered to fill a sudden vacancy in Chapel Croft, Jack learns that the Sussex village is famous for the burning of its martyrs in the reign of Mary I, two of the victims having been young girls. But it's not so clear what happened to two teenage girls who disappeared from Chapel Croft 30 years earlier, in 1990, never to be heard from again. Once Jack discovers that her predecessor killed himself, the menace stalking the village becomes a palpable threat. Shifting points of view bring into play a secret from Jack's past and when that threat is added to the escalating dangers in Chapel Croft, the tension become nearly unbearable. Tudor expertly doles out the plot twists, some of them small, some sizable, and one so shocking that it turns the entire story inside out. Jack, Flo, and the other fully realized characters and their eventual fates won't be easily forgotten by any reader.
Customer Reviews
Burning girls
Great book lots of twists really enjoyed
Reading.
Brilliant
Brilliant book, twists and turns that always shock you. amazing twist at the end. this author never lets you down.
Excellent
Once you start reading you can’t stop! Breathtaking to the end