The Chalk Man Paperback by C. J. Tudor

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2019-07-02)
• Language: English
• Pages: 304
• ISBN-13: 9780385690096
• Weight: 221.13 grams
• Dimensions: 20.22 x 13.23 x 1.6 cm

A riveting and brilliantly plotted psychological suspense, this razor-sharp thriller will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code; little chalk stick figures they leave for each other as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same.
    
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out his other friends got the same messages, they think it could be a prank . . . until one of them turns up dead. That's when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.
    
Expertly alternating between flashbacks and the present day, The Chalk Man is the very best kind of suspense novel, where every mystery has a satisfying payoff, and where the twists will shock even the savviest reader.

About the Author

C. J. TUDOR is the author of The Burning Girls, The Other People, The Hiding Place and The Chalk Man, which won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, the Barry Award and the Strand Magazine Award for Best Debut Novel. Over the years she has worked as a copywriter, television presenter, voice-over artist and dog walker. She is now thrilled to be able to write full-time, and doesn't miss chasing wet dogs through muddy fields all that much. She lives in England with her partner and daughter.