The Burning Girls
The story of the village of Chapel Croft is full of frightening events. Five hundred years ago, local Protestant martyrs were betrayed and burned at the stake. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the parish vicar hanged himself in his own church.
The Reverend Jack Brooks, a single mother with a fourteen-year-old daughter and a burdened conscience, arrives in the village hoping to turn over a new leaf. Instead she discovers a complex tangle of secrets and mysteries.
The more Jack and her daughter Flo explore the hamlet and get to know its strange inhabitants, the deeper they become involved in age-old mysteries and suspicions. And once Flo begins to see ghosts of girls enveloped in flames as well, it becomes clear that there are spirits here who refuse to find rest.
C. J. Tudor
C. J. Tudor was born in Salisbury and grew up in Nottingham, where she still lives with her partner and young daughter. She left school at sixteen and has had a variety of jobs over the years, including trainee reporter, radio scriptwriter, shop assistant, ad agency copywriter and voiceover. In the early nineties, she fell into a job as a television presenter for a show on Channel 4 called Moviewatch.
While writing her sensational debut novel, Тhe Chalk Man, she ran a dog-walking business, walking over twenty dogs a week as well as looking after her little girl.
