The Taking of Annie Thorne by C.J. Tudor

**The spine-tingling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author ofThe Chalk Man.**

One night, Annie went missing. Disappeared from her own bed. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, after forty-eight hours, she came back. But she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her.

Something happened to my sister. I can't explain what. I just know that when she came back, she wasn't the same. She wasn't my Annie.

I didn't want to admit, even to myself, that sometimes I was scared to death of my own little sister.

C.J. Tudor

Reviews

“ If you like my stuff, you'll like this ”

Stephen King

“ A labyrinthine tale that kept me guessing right to the end ”

Val McDermid

“ A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending ”

Sunday Times

“ Utterly hypnotic . . . A dark star is born ”

A. J. Finn

Paperback

9781405930970

September 17, 2019

Michael Joseph

368 pages

RRP $19.99
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Trade Paperback

9780718187460

March 5, 2019

Michael Joseph

352 pages

RRP $32.99
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Hardback

9780718187453

February 21, 2019

Michael Joseph

352 pages

RRP $27.99
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The Taking of Annie Thorne

C.J. Tudor

EBook

9781405930987

February 21, 2019

Penguin eBooks
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Extract

Prologue

Even before stepping into the cottage, Gary knows that this is bad.

It’s the sickly-sweet smell drifting out through the open door; the flies buzzing around the sticky, hot hallway and, if that isn’t a dead giveaway that something about this house is not right, not right in the worst possible way, then the silence confirms it.