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The chalk man : a novel /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Crown, [2018]Edition: First United States editionDescription: 280 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781524760984
  • 1524760986
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.92 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6120.U36 C53 2018
Summary: "Narrated by 'Eddie' who receives a chalk drawing of a stick figure that hurtles him back to an innocent childhood game 30 years before which went terribly, terribly wrong. As history begins to repeat itself, it seems the game was never really over" --Summary: 1986: Eddie and his friends spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages. When a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, nothing is ever the same. 2016: Eddie thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. His friends got the same message, and they think it's a prank... until one of them turns up dead. What really happened all those years ago?
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F TUD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000555163

"A mystery set in 1986 and 2016" -- Publisher's note.

"Previously published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph." -- Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Narrated by 'Eddie' who receives a chalk drawing of a stick figure that hurtles him back to an innocent childhood game 30 years before which went terribly, terribly wrong. As history begins to repeat itself, it seems the game was never really over" --

1986: Eddie and his friends spend their days biking around their sleepy English village and looking for any taste of excitement they can get. The chalk men are their secret code: little chalk stick figures they leave for one another as messages. When a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, nothing is ever the same. 2016: Eddie thinks he's put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. His friends got the same message, and they think it's a prank... until one of them turns up dead. What really happened all those years ago?

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