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October 5th, 2005:
Four pupils at the elustrius boarding school, Cutters Hill, discover a hidden chamber. When they emerge, they find their school abandoned except for the hungry killer that prowls the corridors hungry for his next victim.

October 6th, 2005:
DI Fred Dunn is called to investigate the case of four missing pupils. As a string of undelivered messages on one of their mobiles inexplicably appear, he realises something unearthly is at play here.

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PRAISE FOR C.J. TUDOR

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

''The wildest thriller of the year. Buckle up'' - LINWOOD BARCLAY

''A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone''s must-read list'' - CHRIS WHITAKER

''Some writers have it, and some don''t. C. J. Tudor has it big time'' - LEE CHILD

''runaway train of a book'' - JANE FALLON

Autorentext
C. J. Tudor's love of writing, especially the dark and macabre, started young. When her peers were reading Judy Blume, she was devouring Stephen King and James Herbert. Over the years she has had a variety of jobs, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, dog walker, voiceover, television presenter and copywriter.

She is now the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne, The Other People, The Burning Girls, The Drift and The Gathering. All of her books are in development or optioned for TV. The Burning Girls is available on Netflix.

She is also the author of a short story collection, A Sliver of Darkness.

Klappentext

THE BESTSELLING QUEEN OF HORROR RETURNS

'All the thrills of vintage Stephen King...I loved every second of it. The maestro of macabre does it again'
WILL DEAN

'Imagine Stephen King colliding with The Stepford Wives...an unnerving, slow-burn drenched in malice and suspense. Easily Tudor's strongest novel to date'
JOHN MARRS

'Brimming with mystery, dread, and characters to root for, Serenity Falls is one hell of a good time. Move in at your own risk'
MARCUS KLIEWER

'An absolute epic, packed with secrets, tragedy, dark humour and great characters'
JOSH WINNING

'Beautifully sinister...Serenity Falls takes the dream of suburban perfection and twists it into something deeply unsettling. Creepy, compulsive, and impossible to put down'
GUY MORPUSS

'Entertaining, with a jaw-dropping finale' GUARDIAN

Welcome to Serenity Falls - the most idyllic, and safest, town in the US - a place to grow up, grow your family and grow old together. For Dan and his daughter, Sadie, it's the perfect relocation option. A fresh start, thousands of miles from their troubled past in the UK.

But their idyll is shattered when they find a dead body in the swimming pool of their new house - a house Dan's late mother kept secret from him all his life.

It's just the start of a series of disturbing discoveries. Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadie sees around town putting up 'missing' posters for a child who drowned almost thirty years ago. An ice cream van that drives around at night making sure residents are asleep...

As plans gear up to celebrate Serenity Falls' fiftieth anniversary, something is stirring beneath the surface of the blissful façade. Is Serenity Falls really the perfect town or is it founded on something far darker? And is someone so desperate to keep its secrets that they'd resort to anything to preserve them?

Welcome to Serenity Falls.
Once you're here, you're here to stay.

'A pulse-raising page turner' HEAT (BOOK OF THE WEEK)

Serenity Falls' first readers have fallen in love with it...

'Stepford Wives meets *The Handmaid's Tale' ******
'When Disney gets a big dollop of weird' *****
'Mystery, thriller and horror all in one' *****
'A wildly entertaining, cleverly creepy story that you'll devour' *****
'If Stephen King wrote *Hot Fuzz' ******

PRAISE FOR C. J. TUDOR

'C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' Chris Whitaker

'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail

'Original, high-octane plot, jaw-dropping twists . . . A writer at the top of her game' Claire Douglas

'If you like my stuff, you'll like this' Stephen King

'C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next' Harlan Coben

'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' Lee Child

'She just gets better and better' Sarah Pinborough

Zusammenfassung
The new high-concept thriller fiction project for 2026