The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor

Description

In 1986, Eddie and his friends are just kids on the verge of adolescence. They spend their days biking around their sleepy little 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 each other as messages only they can understand, but then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing will ever be the same. 368pp