About the Author

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 artist, television presenter, copywriter and, now, author.

Her first novel, The Chalk Man, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has sold in over forty countries. Her second novel, The Taking of Annie Thorne, was also a Sunday Times bestseller as was her third novel The Other People. Her fourth novel, The Burning Girls, is out now in hardback.

Reviews

An exceptional thriller that blew me away with its original, high-octane plot, jaw-dropping twists and characters I cared about. When I wasn't reading The Drift I was thinking about it. A writer at the top of her game
*CLAIRE DOUGLAS*

A truly terrifying, ice-cold chiller from the master of macabre. C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list
*CHRIS WHITAKER*

Chilling . . . Her most complex and terrifying yet. The three intriguing locked-room mysteries in an eerie end-of-the-world setting provide the springboard for an enjoyable, fast-paced and captivating thrill ride. You'll be on tenterhooks throughout as the story builds inexorably to a grand reveal and a shocking finale
*Sunday Express*

C.J. Tudor is a genre fiction pioneer. With every new book, she manages to achieve what most writers can only dream of, and The Drift is no exception. Taut, action-packed and oh-so-clever, this thrilling rollercoaster of a ride takes the reader on a journey into the frozen unknown
*FIONA CUMMINS*

Whoa! I raced through this in a couple of days. SO good, SO gripping, SO clever. A runaway train of a book
*JANE FALLON*

Sublimely executed, this is a dystopian thriller of real class.
*Daily Mail*

Fast-paced with twists and thrills, this brutally chilling novel will keep you on tenterhooks
*Crime Monthly*

Atmospheric, with suspense dialled up to the max, and at times heavily claustrophobic, this is a page-turner which flirts heavily with horror and delivers on all counts
*Crime Time*

A chilling, captivating thrill ride
*Sunday Express*

Fast-paced atmospheric story
*Candis*

Tudor has a lot of scary, horror-tinged fun
*Observer*

Without fail, CJ delivers every single time. The Drift is a tense, nail biting thriller that's smart, gripping and brilliantly twisty. Faultless.
*JOHN MARRS*

Absolutely raced through it...An action-packed and chilling horror thriller that's like Station Eleven re-crafted by John Carpenter
*MARK EDWARDS*

Wow! Very clever, mysterious and thrilling with twists and turns that will smack you in the face like many evil snowballs
*SUSI HOLLIDAY*

Heart-poundingly mysterious, breathtakingly twisty, and emotive like a sucker-punch to the chest. The Drift is unputdownable!
*STEPH BROADRIBB*

In this tour de force from Tudor (The Burning Girls), a postapocalyptic thriller, a haven called the Retreat, which has been constructed for a select few in the wake of a devastating new plague, proves to be not much of a haven. Some of those in residence at the mountainside facility begin to disappear, even as vital supplies go missing and power outages increase, leading up to the discovery of a body floating in the recreational pool. Meanwhile, a cable car transporting a group to the Retreat is stranded mid-journey; its occupants, including Meg, a former homicide cop, are stunned to find they're trapped with a corpse, whom Meg recognizes. And a second group also faces a threat to their lives; Hannah Grant has been evacuated from a boarding school, but the bus she's in crashes, possibly not by accident, trapping her and several others. Tudor shifts among the three situations, teasing a common link, and gradually ratchets up the pressure on his characters as they try to preserve their humanity while surviving. This is a masterpiece of its kind.
*PUBLISHERS WEEKLY [starred review]*

A captivating thrill ride
*DAILY EXPRESS*

A gripping tale
*DAILY MAIL*

Praise for C. J. Tudor
*:*

Some writers have it and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time
*Lee Child*

C. J. Tudor is terrific. I can't wait to see what she does next
*Harlan Coben*

If you like my stuff, you'll like this
*Stephen King*

Britain's female Stephen King
*Daily Mail*

Taut, tense and deliciously dark, C.J. Tudor's post-apocalyptic thrill ride is unmissable
*TIM WEAVER*