When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank-until one of them turns up dead. 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. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages only they can understand. They spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. Genres: Psychological Thriller, Thriller / Suspense To my relief there wasn’t really a sense of menace or foreboding, rather a surprising number of secrets and stories-not-told, and I read it in an afternoon. However… (for me anyway) this wasn’t that sort of book. I don’t need something else keeping me awake at night.
I’m plagued enough by my own nightmarish failings and whatifs…. I love crime fiction and can generally cope with the idea of fictional serial killers and psychopaths, but never read (or watch) horror.
The backcover blurb mentions the notion of sleepless nights after reading this book.
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