That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank–until one of them turns up dead. 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. 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 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. Tudor’s first book, and I’m looking forward to seeing what she does next. The Chalk Man was my Book of the Month pick for December and I chose it because there has been a lot of hype around it. But every now and then, I just want to get lost in a crazy, plot-driven storyline that will take me for a wild ride. I don’t read too many thrillers, often preferring novels with a lot of character development and beautifully written prose.
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