In 1986, Eddie and his 12-year-old buddies used chalk to create secret messages to each other. But then Eddie finds a dead body in the forest and there’s a chalk stick figure beside it. The book alternates between 1986 and 2016, when Eddie gets a letter in mail with a single chalk stick figure and learns that an old friend has died. The Chalk Man mystery must be solved before more people turn up dead. This is a fun, suspenseful, horror thriller.