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The Taking of Annie Thorne

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Taking of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor, read by Richard Armitage.

Then . . .

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. Though she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her.

But 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.

Now . . .

The email arrived in my inbox nearly two months ago.
I almost deleted it straight away - but I clicked Open:

I know what happened to your sister. It's happening again . . .

Critics Review

Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time . . . The Taking of Annie Thorne is terrific in every way
Lee Child
Confirms Tudor as Britain's female Stephen King. There is a creeping dread on every page and, as you start a new chapter, a dark shadow over your shoulder. Tudor's punk prose style and her great eye for menace make this a book no one should read at night.
Daily Mail
There is no sign of second-album syndrome: the mix of grotty provincial realism and amateur cold-case sleuthing works just as well here
The Sunday Times
As enjoyable and well written as her first, The Chalk Man
Daily Mirror
Dark, gothic and utterly compelling, The Taking of Annie Thorne pulls off a rare combination - an atmosphere of unsettling evil along with richly nuanced characterisation
J. P. Delaney, bestselling author of The Girl Before
Tudor's 2018 The Chalk Man was a standout mystery novel with a fresh voice and a spooky plot. This is even better
Washington Post
Shows that her excellent The Chalk Man was no one-off in matching Stephen King for creepiness
Sunday Express's Bestseller Predictions 2019
From the author of The Chalk Man comes an equally creepy story about missing children
Woman & Home
Spine-tingling
Sunday Post
Spine tinglingly good
Amy Lloyd, bestselling author of The Innocent Wife
Author C. J. Tudor
Narrator Richard Armitage
Duration 10 hours and 43 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405939966
Format Audiobook
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Genre Contemporary horror and ghost stories, Crime and mystery fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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