My Review: You know those books that you pick up with no expectations, start reading and before you know it you are 20% through and you have no idea where the time has gone but you do know that you are absolutely LOVING the book and then all you can think about is when you can continue reading it (damn you real life, work, family, housework etc), and then you steal more time away from real life to read and suddenly you notice you are 60% through and your kindle is telling you that there is 1 hr 25 mins left in the book and you think “NOOOOO!” because you want to read it BUT you don’t want to finish it as it’s so good? Well that is EXACTLY how I felt whilst reading CJ Tudor’s brilliant debut novel THE CHALK MAN. That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.Įxpertly alternating between flashbacks and the present day, The Chalk Man is the very best kind of suspense novel, one where every character is wonderfully fleshed out and compelling, where every mystery has a satisfying payoff, and where the twists will shock even the savviest reader.

When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he’s put his past behind him. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.

The chalk men are their secret code little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. The must-read thriller of 2018, this riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending

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