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Why am I not hearing more about this book?!!  The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor  Released February 2021 Dark Fiction   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   |  Bookshop An unconventional vicar moves to a remote corner of the English countryside, only to discover a community haunted by death and disappearances both past and present--and intent on keeping its dark secrets--in this explosive, unsettling thriller from acclaimed author C. J. Tudor. Welcome to Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, eight protestant martyrs were burned at the stake here. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And two months ago, the vicar of the local parish killed himself. Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping to make a fresh start and find some peace. Instead, Jack finds a town mired in secrecy and a strange welcome package: an old exorcism kit and ...

Even though everyone seems to adore The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor , I liked this one better. The Other People by C.J. Tudor Released January 2020 Thriller   |   Goodreads   |   Amazon   Source: Library Loan She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . . Three years ago, Gabe saw his daughter taken. In the back of a rusty old car, covered in bumper stickers. He was driving behind the car. He watched her disappear. But no one believes him. Most people believe that his daughter, and wife, are dead. For a while, people believed that Gabe was responsible. Three years later and Gabe cannot give up hope. Even though he has given up everything else. His home, his job, his old life. He spends his days and nights traveling up and down the motorway, sleeping in his camper van in service stations, searching for the car that took her. Searching for his daughter. Katie spends a lot of her life in service stations, working as a waitress. She often ...

A solid 3.5 star for me. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor, Na rrated by ‎ Euan Morton   Audiobook   Horror Fiction Released January 2018, Unabridged  Amazon  ♦  Goodreads In 1986, Eddie and his friend are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out his other friends got the same messages, they think it could be a prank... until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really ...

You may have noticed that I fed myself a steady diet of horror fiction in April. That's mostly because I love horror fiction but also because I signed up for Seasons of Reading Spring Horror Challenge. I managed to almost finish eight books which is a miracle for me! I may have to do this more often :) The Chalk Man  by C.J. Tudor 3.5 stars Cat Call by Steve Vernon 5 Stars The Strain by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan 3 Stars Afterage by Yvonne Navarro 4 Stars Ararat by Christopher Golden 4 Stars The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde DNF Everything That's Underneath by Kristi DeMeester 4 Stars A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness 5 Stars Spring into Horror Readathon  

                 New Books This Week! This is where I spotlight the sparkling new releases that are tempting me so you can succumb to temptation too. The focus will be on dark fiction and romance with the occasional thriller tossed in that catches my eye.  This week has been far too busy but I managed to find a good mix of horror, thriller, romance and fantasy romances. If only there were enough hours in the day to read them all! HORROR,  HORROR-Adjacent & THRILLERS Not Your Final Girl by Mikayla Randolph A feminist slasher novel fueled by female rage and haunted by gruesome murders, in this contemporary reimagining of Tess of the D’Urbervilles there can only be one Final Girl. Darcy and her high school friends haven’t gathered together in seven years. After a tragic murder on prom night, the group graduated and never looked back. But when the lakeside cabin they spent their summers at is put up for sale, they reunite for one la...

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