The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor
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The must-read thriller of 2018, this riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry that will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.
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 one another as messages only they can understand. But then a mysterious chalk man leads them right to a dismembered body, and nothing is ever the same.
In 2016, Eddie is fully grown, and thinks he’s put his past behind him. But then he gets a letter in the mail, containing a single chalk stick figure. When it turns out that his friends got the same message, they think it could be a prank…until one of them turns up dead.
That’s when Eddie realizes that saving himself means finally figuring out what really happened all those years ago.
Expertly alternating between flashbacks and the present day, The Chalk Man is the very best kind of suspense novel, one where every character is wonderfully fleshed out and compelling, where every mystery has a satisfying payoff, and where the twists will shock even the savviest reader.
Two Girls Down by Louisa LunaWhen two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move on, but Vega needs his help to find the girls, and she will not be denied.
With little to go on, Vega and Cap will go to extraordinary lengths to untangle a dangerous web of lies, false leads, and complex relationships to find the girls before time runs out, and they are gone forever.
The Lost Plot by Genevieve Cogman
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After being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae.
In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid Librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in the middle of a dragon political contest. It seems a young Librarian has become tangled in this conflict, and if they can’t extricate him, there could be serious repercussions for the mysterious Library. And, as the balance of power across mighty factions hangs in the balance, this could even trigger war.
Irene and Kai are locked in a race against time (and dragons) to procure a rare book. They’ll face gangsters, blackmail, and the Library’s own Internal Affairs department. And if it doesn’t end well, it could have dire consequences on Irene’s job. And, incidentally, on her life…
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
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If you were told the date of your death, how would it shape your present?
It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.
Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
I really want to read The Chalk Man…it just sounds really good.
I loved that book, Chuckles!
The Chalk Man and The Immortalists are two I am definitely interested in. Thanks for sharing these!
The Chalk Man was great. Unfortunately, The Immortalists was a dnf for me.
I preordered Beneath the Sugar Sky and I KNOW it's just waiting for me on my Kindle and mocking me. It will be hard for me to not dive right into that one.
I still need to read the second one in that series. I loved the first one.
I hear Two Girls Down whispering my name. I'm trying to ignore it because I need to get a handle on my tbr this year. I can't cave so early 🙂
I must say that Two Girls Down might be worth it!
I have a couple of these I need to read. I can't seem to keep up. 🙁 I'm looking forward to them though. The Immortalists and The Lost Plot, in particular. The other books also sound good.
I can't keep up either!
My copy of Two Girls Down just came today and I can't wait to dive in! ?
I hope you like that one as much as I did, Jenea! It is a great book 🙂
Read Two Girls Down and getting ready to The Chalk Man! 🙂
Those are both great books!
I have heard that Blood Fury is simply AWESOME!!
I have seen some good reviews as well. I need to get back to reading J.R. Ward.
I'm really hoping my library gets The Chalk Man! I could go for a good thriller.
It is such a great book, Lauren! I hope you get to read it soon.
I'm currently reading The Chalk Man and really enjoying it!
-Lauren
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I loved The Chalk Man!
The Lost Plot is tempting!
That is such a good one, Anna!
A great post! I am so out of the loop with current releases so I always love seeing these, thank you.
Sharon – Obsession with Books
It can be hard to keep up sometimes!