Summary: Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass.
Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach
careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They’ll
need to work together to escape—with their sanity and secrets intact.
Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She’s in a cable car stranded high
above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got
on board. They are heading to a place known only as “The Retreat,” but
as the temperature drops and tensions mount, Meg realizes they may not
all make it there alive.
Carter is gazing out the window of an
isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their
generator begins to waver in the storm, something hiding in the chalet’s
depths threatens to escape, and their fragile bonds will be tested when
the power finally fails—for good.
The imminent dangers faced by
Hannah, Meg, and Carter are each one part of the puzzle. Lurking in
their shadows is an even greater danger—one with the power to consume
all of humanity.
(Pub Date: Jan 31 2023)
Summary: A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago,
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.
(Pub Date: Feb 09 2021)
Summary: Driving home one night, Gabe is stuck behind a rusty old car. He sees a little girl’s face appear in its rear window. She mouths one word: Daddy. It’s his five-year-old daughter, Izzy. He never sees her again.
Three years later, Gabe spends his days and nights traveling up and down the highway, searching for the car that took his daughter, refusing to give up hope, even though most people believe she’s dead.
When the car that he saw escape with his little girl is found abandoned with a body inside, Gabe must confront not just the day Izzy disappeared but the painful events from his past now dredged to the surface.
Q: What sort of justice?
A: That depends on the individual. But our ethos is a punishment that fits the crime.
Fran and her daughter, Alice, also put in a lot of miles on the road. Not searching. Running. Trying to keep one step ahead of the people who want to hurt them—because Fran knows the truth. She knows what really happened to Gabe’s daughter.
She knows who is responsible. And she knows what they will do if they ever catch up to her and Alice.
Q: Can I request to have someone killed?
A: If your Request is acceptable, and unless there are exceptional circumstances, we fulfill all Requests.(Pub Date: Jan 28, 2020)
Summary: Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang--the betrayal, the suicide, the murder--and after what happened when his sister went missing, the last thing he wanted to do was return to his hometown. But Joe doesn't have a choice. Because judging by what was done to that poor Morton kid, what happened all those years ago to Joe's sister is happening again. And only Joe knows who is really at fault.
Lying his way into a teaching job at his former high school is the easy part. Facing off with former friends who are none too happy to have him back in town--while avoiding the enemies he's made in the years since--is tougher. But the hardest part of all will be returning to that abandoned mine where it all went wrong and his life changed forever, and finally confronting the shocking, horrifying truth about Arnhill, his sister, and himself. Because for Joe, the worst moment of his life wasn't the day his sister went missing.
It was the day she came back.
With the same virtuosic command of character and pacing she displayed in The Chalk Man, C. J. Tudor has once again crafted an extraordinary novel that brilliantly blends harrowing psychological suspense, a devilishly puzzling mystery, and enough shocks and thrills to satisfy even the most seasoned reader. (Pub Date: Feb 05, 2019)
Summary: In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy 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 one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever 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 that his friends got the same message, 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 happened all those years ago.
Expertly alternating between flashbacks and the present day, The Chalk Man is the very best kind of suspense novel, one where every character is wonderfully fleshed out and compelling, where every mystery has a satisfying payoff, and where the twists will shock even the savviest reader. (Pub Date: Jan 9, 2018)
