The idea for my first book came to me when I read this crazy article while living in Scotland: “Child vampire hunters sparked comic crackdown.” On September 23, 1954, in Glasgow, hundreds of kids, age 4 to 14, started patrolling the city’s necropolis, armed with sharpened sticks and knives. She loves classic horror movies and coffee.Īpril, tell us about the inspiration for Violet’s story?

If only Violet knew that while she’s been hunting the Redding boys someone’s been hunting her.Īpril Tucholke has lived in many places, including Scotland, and currently lives in Oregon at the edge of a forest, in a house with an attic, wine cellar, and “secret passageway,” where she can hear coyotes howl at night while she’s writing. All the while, Violet’s feelings for Neely grow sharper, the stakes higher, and the truth harder to pin down. They discover a girl who’s seen the devil, a sea captain’s daughter, and a sweet, red-haired forest boy who meets death halfway. She and the other Redding brother, Neely, hunt for River in frenzied mountain towns, cursed islands, and an empty, snow-muffled hotel. When a late-night radio show whispers of eerie events in a distant mountain village, Violet seizes on it-this could be River or Brodie.

This story follows the search for River Redding and his brother Brodie, who disappeared after bringing chaos to the small seaside town of Echo last summer. With its shades of Stephen King and Daphne du Maurier, Tucholke’s writing has been described by Kirkus Reviews in these terms: “The faded opulence of the setting is an ideal backdrop for this lushly atmospheric gothic thriller, which, happily, comes with a satisfying conclusion. Following the success of BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, author April Genevieve Tucholke has penned the concluding episode of the YA gothic thriller romance between “semi-orphan” Violet, and the morally ambiguous River Redding, in BETWEEN THE SPARK AND THE BURN (from Penguin/Putnam).

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