The Sun said " weaves a complex and captivating story in her first novel.". The Chalk Man was published in January 2018 by Crown Publishing.
She was born in Salisbury, England but grew up in Nottingham, where she still lives. Tudor is a British author whose books include The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place (The Taking of Annie Thorne). “I haven’t had a sleepless night due to a book for a long time. “If you can’t get enough of psychological thrillers with sharp twists and turns, you need to read The Chalk Man” - Hello Giggles Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window The Chalk Man is a dream novel, a book of nightmares: haunted and haunting, shot through with shadow and light-a story to quicken the pulse and freeze the blood. Tudor never misses a beat in showing each character as both a child and an adult while also exploring the foreboding environs of a small town.” -Associated Press The Chalk Man fits well with other stories about troubled childhoods such as Stephen King’s novella Stand by Me. “An assured debut that alternates between 19 with unpredictable twists. “Wonderfully creepy-like a cold blade on the back of your neck.” -Lee Child Because in this town, everyone has secrets, no one is innocent, and some will do anything to bury the truth. But digging into the past proves more dangerous than he could have known.
When one of them is killed, Eddie realizes that saving himself means figuring out what happened all those years ago. Soon he learns that all his old friends received the same note.
In 2016, Eddie is nursing a drinking problem and trying to forget his past, until one day he gets a letter containing a chalk man-the same one he and his friends saw when they found the body. They follow the message, only to find the dead body of a teenage girl. But one morning the friends find a chalk man leading them to the woods. The chalk men are their secret code, stick figures they draw for one another as hidden messages. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are on the verge of adolescence, spending their days biking in search of adventure.
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