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Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
DI JACK CAFFERY - a London cop in self-exile in Bristol who is running from his past, now working in tandem with a local female police diver. Not for the faint-hearted, a series that explores the heart of darkness and chills to the bones. SKIN is the 4th in the series.
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It might be advisable to read Ritual before you read Skin as there are certain plot follow-ups to Ritual in this book. Mo Hayder is a writer who can be quite graphic with her descriptions of murders but if you can handle that you will find her a gripping and fascinating story teller.
Jack Caffery series:
1. Birdman (2000)
2. The Treatment (2001)
3. Ritual (2008)
4. Skin (2009)
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Skin Synopsis
A Jack Caffrey thriller from ';easily today's best writer of visceral and elemental horror... guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart.' (Booklist, starred review) In her eerie and hair-raising thriller Skin, Mo Hayder trails her two unforgettable protagonists as they race to staunch a rising tide of blood in a sweltering port town. When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someoneor somethingthat can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no onenot even Cafferycan help her face. Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apartor bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder's most horrifying villains yet. ';Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating.' The Times (London)
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780802198013 |
| Publication date: |
8th February 2011 |
| Author: |
Mo Hayder |
| Publisher: |
Grove Atlantic |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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Mo Hayder Press Reviews
'Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers. She is the bravest writer I know.' Karin Slaughter
'Hayder is the closest we've got to Stephen King ... the goriest thriller writer this side of the pond.' Mirror
'Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating. The inner demons of Caffery and Marley make the turmoils of Rankin's Rebus or Mankell's Wallender seem puny and adolescent... She writes and plots with panache. Macabre, yes, but also absorbing and hugely entertaining.' The Times
'Warped ... bloodthirsty ... No matter how much you despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, Hayder is brilliant at making you read on.' Daily Telegraph
'Hayder's gory insights into the dark are compelling.' Guardian
About Mo Hayder
After leaving school at fifteen, Mo Hayder worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University, where she now teaches.
She is the author of Birdman, The Treatment, which won the 2001 WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, and Tokyo, all published by Bantam Books.
In 2011 Mo Hayder was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded to an author for a body of work.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on DI JACK CAFFERY...
A London cop in self-exile in Bristol who is running from his past, now working in tandem with a local female police diver. Not for the faint-hearted, a series that explores the heart of darkness and chills to the bones. SKIN is the 4th in the series.
Jack Caffery series:
1. Birdman (2000)
2. The Treatment (2001)
3. Ritual (2008)
4. Skin (2009)
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