The writing is vivid and fun and the characters are richly drawn and occasionally, yes, moving. What I love about this thriller is that it’s not trying to win the Pulitzer for flowery prose or tear-jerking poignancy. The Chalk Man alternates between 1986, as horror first gripped the village, and 2016, when the tragedy rears its ugly head again.
Eddie’s left with no choice but to untangle what really happened all those decades ago - and face the demons of his past. Well, it’s all fun and games until one of those former buddies turns up dead.
At first, he thinks it’s just a dark prank, especially when he learns his childhood friends - now scattered apart and long out of touch - got the same message. Thirty years later, Eddie receives a mysterious letter in the mail: a single chalk stick figure. With a brilliant little knife twist in the book’s final pages, Tudor did the impossible: She freaked me the hell out. In 1986, when 12-year-old Eddie and his buddies were kicking around their sleepy English town, drawing chalk men on one another’s driveways in their own secret language, a mysterious chalk drawing led them to a dismembered body hidden in the woods. He’s long since moved on from the event that marked the breakup of his childhood friend group - and, in many ways, the end of his childhood. The narrator of Tudor’s debut is Eddie, a funny and grouchy and satisfyingly unlikable teacher with a bad attitude and a fully stocked (and frequently used) liquor cabinet. Tudor’s The Chalk Man, I woke up in the middle of the night, sweaty and twisted in my sheets, heart pounding, eyes still on the lookout for whatever scary thing was chasing me. So it’s truly remarkable that after finishing the final page of C.J. I’m thick-skinned and not easily spooked, and I'll cheerfully flick off the lights and drift off to sleep alone in my apartment immediately after experiencing pulse-pounding terror. I’m a lifelong fan of the dark and macabre - I read Christopher Pike and RL Stine as a youngster, and watched slasher films and read deeply disturbing true crime and thrillers as an adult. In this installment, The Lost Night author Andrea Bartz writes about C.J. Bustle's Twist I'll Never Forget series is dedicated to the thriller, crime, and mystery novels with twists you'll never see coming.
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