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The Burning Girls
Reader Score
82%
82% of readers
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Critic Reviews
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SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL SERIES - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt Tudor's best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on."--Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, local Protestant martyrs were betrayed--then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church.
Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping for a fresh start. Instead, Jack finds a town rife with conspiracies and secrets, and is greeted with a strange welcome package: an exorcism kit and a note that warns, "But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known."
The more Jack and daughter, Flo, explore the town and get to know its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into the age-old rifts, mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo begins to see specters of girls ablaze, it becomes apparent there are ghosts here that refuse to be laid to rest.
Uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village with a bloody past, where everyone has something to hide and no one trusts an outsider.
Book Details
- Publisher: Diversified Publishing
- Publish Date: Feb 23rd, 2021
- Pages: 512
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.00in - 1.30in - 1.10lb
- EAN: 9780593295120
- Categories: • Thrillers - Suspense• Thrillers - Psychological• Thrillers - Domestic
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NYT bestseller. @LexWritersRoom chair. Mr. & Mrs. Witch, Not Your Average Hot Guy, Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds. she/her Reps: @kate_mckean, @literaticat
@QueenOfRats At least I was in the ballpark! Let me think what else -- oh, have you tried any of C.J. Tudor's stuff? More psychological, but GOOD STUFF. The Burning Girls is the most recent and I loved it.
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Praise for this book
"Fans of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Jess Lourey will leap at the chance to read [C. J. Tudor's] new psychological thriller. . . . Gruesome and haunting, The Burning Girls is worth every page turn."--Booklist (starred review)
"The kind of novel that's so creepy, it might just seep into your dreams."--Popsugar
"Tudor's uncanny twisty plot is populated with intriguing, damaged characters and the slow-burning suspense leads to a crackling ending."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Rarely have the secrets of an English village been used to greater effect. . . . The tension become[s] nearly unbearable. Tudor expertly doles out the plot twists . . . one so shocking that it turns the entire story inside out. . . . Won't be easily forgotten by any reader."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next."--Harlan Coben
"Want to read something good?. . . If you like my stuff, you'll like [The Chalk Man]."--Stephen King
"Some writers have it, and some don't. Tudor has it big-time."--Lee Child
"Tudor is always several steps ahead. She is a brilliant storyteller."--Alex Michaelides, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
"Tudor is the queen of the cliffhanger."--John Marrs, international bestselling author of The Passengers
"Tudor has proven that she is a true master at creating perfectly dark, highly propulsive, and tightly coiled mysteries that are utterly impossible to put down."--Aimee Molloy, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Mother
"If you like Tana French, you will love, love, love C. J. Tudor."--Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
"C. J. Tudor is turning out some of the best supernatural fiction around. And in The Burning Girls, her signature blend of self-aware characters and ancient evils is on full display."--CrimeReads, "The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021"
"Tudor . . . strikes again with another thriller filled with twists and turns right up to the mind-bending ending."--Library Journal
"The author steadily cranks up the scares and the suspense while smoothly toggling between multiple narratives. . . . Jack is immensely appealing. . . . Readers will savor the final, breathless twists. Top-notch and deliciously creepy storytelling."--Kirkus Reviews
What people are saying
NYT bestseller. @LexWritersRoom chair. Mr. & Mrs. Witch, Not Your Average Hot Guy, Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds. she/her Reps: @kate_mckean, @literaticat
@QueenOfRats At least I was in the ballpark! Let me think what else -- oh, have you tried any of C.J. Tudor's stuff? More psychological, but GOOD STUFF. The Burning Girls is the most recent and I loved it.