He’s long since moved on from the event that marked the breakup of his childhood friend group - and, in many ways, the end of his childhood. The narrator of Tudor’s debut is Eddie, a funny and grouchy and satisfyingly unlikable teacher with a bad attitude and a fully stocked (and frequently used) liquor cabinet. With a brilliant little knife twist in the book’s final pages, Tudor did the impossible: She freaked me the hell out. Tudor’s The Chalk Man, I woke up in the middle of the night, sweaty and twisted in my sheets, heart pounding, eyes still on the lookout for whatever scary thing was chasing me. So it’s truly remarkable that after finishing the final page of C.J. I’m thick-skinned and not easily spooked, and I'll cheerfully flick off the lights and drift off to sleep alone in my apartment immediately after experiencing pulse-pounding terror. I’m a lifelong fan of the dark and macabre - I read Christopher Pike and RL Stine as a youngster, and watched slasher films and read deeply disturbing true crime and thrillers as an adult. In this installment, The Lost Night author Andrea Bartz writes about C.J. Bustle's Twist I'll Never Forget series is dedicated to the thriller, crime, and mystery novels with twists you'll never see coming.
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