An unconventional vicar must exorcise the dark past of a remote village haunted by death and disappearances

My thoughts

Rating: 4

Would I recommend it ? Yes

Would I read anything else by this author? Yes, because she one of my 3 top women horror authors .

First of I want to say a huge thank you to the publisher Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine , the author C.J. Tudor , and to NetGalley for letting me read and review it. Wow just like her other books this is spot on what you thing of when you read C.J.Tudor's books :

Nail bitingly , blood freezing, terrifyingly heart beat that has you setting on the edge of your set and jumping almost out of your skin because your so caught up in the story and not what's going on around you. Its creepy and twisted and makes you want to keep turn the pages and when your finished with it your at a standstill because you want more of her books but you have to wait because you've already read them all, like I have. IN fact she's the only horror author that I've done that with where I'm all caught up with her books. And her atmosphere of her books and this one as well always gives you goosebumps on your arms at least they do mine because you have no idea what is going to happening next or what is coming straight at you from the shadows, like I said this book has every thing in that you would want : a ghosts, a small town with a dark past and history, a disappearance, and even exorcisms. So what are you waiting for go pick it up .

A dark history lingers in Chapel Croft. Five hundred years ago, Protestant martyrs were betrayed — then burned. Thirty years ago, two teenage girls disappeared without a trace. And a few weeks ago, the vicar of the local parish hanged himself in the nave of the church.

Reverend Jack Brooks, a single parent with a 14-year-old daughter and a heavy conscience, arrives in the village hoping for a fresh start. Instead, Jack finds a town rife with conspiracies and secrets, and is greeted with a strange welcome package: an exorcism kit and a note that warns, “But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known.”

The more Jack and daughter, Flo, explore the town and get to know its strange denizens, the deeper they are drawn into the age-old rifts, mysteries, and suspicions. And when Flo begins to see specters of girls ablaze, it becomes apparent there are ghosts here that refuse to be laid to rest.

Uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village with a bloody past, where everyone has something to hide and no one trusts an outsider