'If you like my stuff, you'll like this' Stephen King
IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR MAKE IT THIS ONE.
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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, ALSO SHORTLISTED FOR THE STEEL DAGGER, BEST THRILLER AWARD . . .
'A must-read' Daily Express
'A tense gripper with a leave-the-lights-on shock ending' Sunday Times
'Deliciously creepy with a side order of Eighties nostalgia' Good Housekeeping
'Plenty of plot twists and an evocative portrait of small-town-life in the 1980s . . . a riveting read' Guardian
'There are shades of Stephen King when the reality bends into the sinister, and a deliciously creepy finale' Daily Mail
'Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck' LEE CHILD
'It's a very clever story - you'll love it!' Joanna Cannon
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)
Gripping, chilling . . . brilliant. As creepy as that house with dark windows we all knew as kids. I can't wait for the next one (Luca Veste)
If you like my stuff, you'll like this (STEPHEN KING)
Completely engrossing. Puts me in mind of Stephen King's The Body (JOHN BOYNE)
Wonderfully creepy - like a cold blade on the back of your neck (LEE CHILD)
The past rises from the chalk dust. A labyrinthine tale that kept me guessing right to the end (VAL MCDERMID The Mail on Sunday)
This assured debut is very much in the Stephen King vein - creepy with plenty of menace (The Guardian)
Half horror, half crime, The Chalk Man is a creepy, compulsive novel (Red Online)
'Tense, skilful storytelling' Ali Land, bestselling author of Good Me Bad Me
'There's a creeping sense of unease that starts with the prologue and grows throughout the book. And then that ending!' James Oswald, bestselling author of the Inspector McLean series
'Gripping' Cecelia Ahern, bestselling author of P.S. I Love You
'A page-turning thriller that draws simple but terrifying lines about evil and the haunting nature of childhood' Julia Heaberlin, bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans
'Completely engrossing. Puts me in mind of Stephen King's The Body' John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
'Impossible to put down, cleverly constructed and executed' Ragnar Jónasson, author of the bestselling Dark Iceland series
'Insightful, clever, thoughtful, mysterious, gripping, nostalgic and utterly compelling. This book has bestseller written all over it' C. L. Taylor, bestselling author of The Missing
'Compelling, taut and so very, very chilling. This book will haunt you!' Claire Douglas, bestselling author of Last Seen Alive