C. J Tudor

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...

"A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Deadhart, Alaska. Population: 673. Living. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know...

"The thrilling second novel from the author of The Chalk Man, about a teacher with a hidden agenda who returns to settle scores at a school he once attended, only to uncover a darker secret than he could have imagined. Joe never wanted to come back to Arnhill. After the way things ended with his old gang--the betrayal, the suicide, the murder--and after what happened when his sister went missing, the last thing he wanted to do was return to his hometown....

Annie desapareció una noche. Desapareció de su propia cama sin dejar rastro. Todos pensamos lo peor. De repente, como un milagro, tras cuarenta y ocho horas, volvió, pero no podía, o no quería, contar lo que le había ocurrido. Algo le pasó a mi hermana, aunque ella no pueda explicarlo. Solo sé que cuando volvió ya no era la misma. No era mi Annie. Soy incapaz de admitir, incluso para mí mismo, que a veces mi hermana me aterroriza.