The Chalk Man By C.J. Tudor

[amazon_link id=”0718187431″ target=”_blank” ][/amazon_link]’The Chalk Man’ is the latest book by C.J. Tudor.

The Chalk Man is coming. 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?

‘The Chalk Man’ is C.J. Tudor’s first book and it was a book that kept me up late reading with its grippy narrative and plotline.

The story is seen solely through the eyes of Ed, a man who has spent his life in a small town surrounded by drama and lies, where everyone is a suspect having never properly recovered from the unsolved crime that the took place over 20 years ago.

The story takes place during 1986 and flows forward to present time as history begins to repeat itself.

Back in 1986, Ed was best friends with three other boys, they spent their summers together, leaving messages for each other in different coloured chalk but that all changes one day when they find a dead girl and the friends grow apart. Move forward to present to now, someone is leaving chalk messages for Ed and he begins to wonder about the death of the young girl and begins to research into the case himself as early memories resurface.

Ed is a complex and intriguing character. He fears for his sanity as his own father died from Alzheimer’s and regularly questions his mind. He’s a bit of a loner and spends most of time in thought instead of engaging with people, but his time is taken up with reflecting on his childhood and trying to piece together the moments of leading up to and after the girls death. His obsession with the case grows as he delves further and reaching out to people who left the town.

The story is filled with many interesting characters, who all have baggage and drama that make them all for fascinating reading, with all that drama makes the reader constantly on their toes as they also try to piece together Ed’s memories with him and solve the crime.

Cleverly written and twists and tales, ‘The Chalk Man’ is a gory and gruesome story that makes for haunting reading.

You can pre-order [amazon_link id=”0718187431″ target=”_blank” ]The Chalk Man from Amazon [/amazon_link] and is available to buy from good bookshops from 11th January 2018.