THE BESTSELLING QUEEN OF HORROR RETURNS

'Britain's female Stephen King' Daily Mail

Welcome to Serenity Falls – the most idyllic town in the US and the safest place for families to grow up together, where crime is non-existent. It seems the perfect relocation option for Dan and his daughter Sadie as they move from the UK. A fresh start, thousands of miles from their troubled past.

But their new idyll is shattered when they find a dead body in their swimming pool.

And it turns out that’s just the start of a series of odd discoveries. Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadie keeps seeing around town putting up ‘missing’ posters for a child who drowned twenty-five 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 idyllic 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 – the perfect town. For murder.

PRAISE FOR C. J. TUDOR

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

‘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

-- -- PRAISE FOR C.J. TUDOR
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
A runaway train of a book -- JANE FALLON
PRAISE FOR C.J. TUDOR -- --
Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time -- LEE CHILD
Britain’s female Stephen King returns with a sparkling, yet terrifying, story of a colony of vampires . . . this a brilliant high-concept thriller * Daily Mail *
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

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 debuted on Paramount Plus in 2023 and is now available on Netflix. She is also the author of a short story collection, A Sliver of Darkness.