C.J. Tudor

The Chalk Man

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«I haven't had a sleepless night due to a book for a long time. The Chalk Man changed that.»
—Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow
A riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut that weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry, and 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 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 one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever 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…
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    What was wrong with his skin? He was an albino, the adults explained patiently. That meant he was missing something called a “pigment” that made most people’s skin a normal pink or brown color. And his eyes? Same thing. They were just missing pigment. So, he wasn’t a freak, or a monster or a ghost? No. Just a normal man with a medical condition.

    They were wrong. Mr. Halloran was many things, but normal was never one of them

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