The Chalk Man: The chilling and spine-tingling Sunday Times bestseller - Softcover

Tudor, C. J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405930950 ISBN 13: 9781405930956

Publisher: Penguin, 2018

'IF YOU LIKE MY STUFF, YOU'LL LIKE THIS' STEPHEN KING

'WONDERFULLY CREEPY - LIKE A COLD BLADE ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK' LEE CHILD
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It was only meant to be a game . . .

None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning.

Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own?

Was it the terrible accident?

Or when they found the first body?
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & THE STEEL DAGGER, BEST THRILLER AWARD

'A must-read' Daily Express

'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times

'There are shades of Stephen King in this very creepy timeslip' Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'A frightening Stephen King-esque coming-of-age story cum murder mystery' Daily Telegraph, BOOKS OF THE YEAR

'There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail

'Deliciously creepy with a side order of Eighties nostalgia' Good Housekeeping

Review:

Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck (LEE CHILD)

The Chalk Man works, it's a lively and entertaining read . . . Tudor's got talent (The Times)

This assured debut is very much in the Stephen King vein - creepy with plenty of menace (The Guardian)

Hot damn C. J. Tudor's The Chalk Man is good. Very Stephen King-esque (Ruth Ware)

CJ Tudor's very clever, wrong-footing debut will leave you checking that doors and windows of your holiday cottage are secure . . . (Radio Times)

A striking debut (Sunday Times)

A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending (Sunday Times Crime Club)

You'll be gripped by this cracking debut novel . . . it will keep you up all night with all the lights on. This intriguing, satisfying thriller delivers a series of shocks . . . reminiscent of the master of horror Stephen King (Daily Express)

If you like my stuff, you'll like this (STEPHEN KING)

It's a very clever story - you'll love it! (Joanna Cannon)

From the Back Cover:

You can feel it in the woods, in the school and in the playground; you can feel it in the houses and at the fairground. You can feel it in most places in the small town of Anderbury . . . the fear that something or someone is watching you.

It began back in 1986, at the fair, on the day of the accident. That was when twelve-year-old Eddie met Mr Halloran - the Chalk Man.

He gave Eddie the idea for the drawings: a way to leave secret messages for his friends and it was fun, until the chalk men led them to a body.

Thirty years later, Ed believes the past is far behind him, until an envelope slips through the letterbox. It contains a stick of chalk, and a drawing of a figure.

Is history going to repeat itself?

Was it ever really over?

Will this game only end in the same way?

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1405930950
• ISBN 13: 9781405930956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368