Book set in a English Pit village – The Taking of Annie Thorne, CJ Tudor

Submitted: 18th February 2019

The Hiding Place in Nottingham for CJ Tudor’s remote village

The second scary book from CJ Tudor. Unsettling is a good word to describe The Taking of Annie Thorne. The US title is The Hiding Place and I think I prefer the US title as it adds to a more location based feel. And location here, despite being fictional for obvious reasons, is key to the mystery.

Book set in a English Pit village – The Taking of Annie Thorne, CJ Tudor

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Book set in a English Pit village – The Taking of Annie Thorne, CJ Tudor

Oh jeepers I think CJ Tudor is trying to make me never want to leave the house again. Certainly never to visit an old pit village and given that I’m from the North East of England, there are a few of them about here! Haha this was a creepy CREEPY novel from the start..

There’s lots of elements here which thriller fans and horror fans will love – the abandoned pit village where only the most stalwart of people are living now. A troubled man returning to his childhood home, an even in the past which scars him and which people in the village do not want him to reveal. A missing girl who returns, ‘changed’

The sense of foreboding is strong throughout and it makes you want to read on that’s for sure. There are some troubled,troubled people in this story mind!

The village of Arnhill is fictional but somewhere in Nottingham. If it were real, no one would go after reading this! The novel does fall into the category of supernatural and it was this side of things which for me lessened the grip of the novel and later events made the novel go beyond the realms of what I felt I could believe and invest in. This is hard without giving anything away.!

It reminded me of certain Stephen King books I used to scare myself with when I was younger and this one was creepy and unsettling.

CJ Tudor has a knack for touching on issues and memories that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end!