<div>A &ldquo;profoundly creepy and creepily convincing thriller&rdquo; of religious fanatics and hoax debunkers from the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author of Hanging Hill (Publishers Weekly, starred review) Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. Following the trail of a strange creature caught briefly on film, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pig skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups&rsquo; isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil&mdash;and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold . . . This latest entry from the acclaimed British author of the Jack Caffery novels &ldquo;taps into the current fascination with all things supernatural and questions our assumptions about a number of subjects, from faith healing to cultish religious groups and society&rsquo;s definition of evil&rdquo; (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;[Hayder] remains one of our most adventurous, unpredictable and ambitious writers.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Hayder offers both a riveting story and a nuanced, distinctly modern look at secrecy and publicity, belief and skepticism, normal and taboo, (in)sight and blindness.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;An adventurous, edgy, literate writer.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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Pig Island

<div>Detective Jack Caffery hunts a twisted carjacker in this Edgar Award&ndash;winning thriller from the &ldquo;maestro of the sinister&rdquo; and author of Birdman (New York Daily News). Jack Caffery&rsquo;s new case seems like a routine carjacking until he realizes the sickening truth: The thief wasn&rsquo;t after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the back seat. And she&rsquo;s not the only young girl who&rsquo;s been taken. Meanwhile, police diver Sgt. Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always one step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and as the chances for the victims&rsquo; survival grow slimmer, Caffery and Marley race to fit the pieces together. With this award-winning entry in her acclaimed series set first in London, and now in Bristol, England, &ldquo;Hayder, again, proves expert at ratcheting up the tension&rdquo; (The Independent). &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a tribute to Hayder&rsquo;s powers as a suspense writer that she completely turns the over-familiar premise of this novel inside out and upside down.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;Compelling . . . First-rate mystery that takes full advantage of the wintry, moonlit West Country and the unusual skills of its lady diver.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Gone

<div>Now a major motion picture: A boy&rsquo;s abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery in this &ldquo;deliciously chilling thriller&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: Their eight-year-old son has been abducted. When the boy&rsquo;s body is found, forensic evidence reveals disturbing parallels to events in Det. Jack Caffery&rsquo;s own past. As more evidence accumulates, Caffery struggles to maintain his professional distance. But the case is hurtling toward a terrifying conclusion that will force him to confront the demons he&rsquo;s tried so hard and so long to bury . . . &ldquo;The most frightening book I&rsquo;ve ever read.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Hayder handles procedural detail, dialogue, and volatile subject matter with powerful dexterity.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review</div>

The Treatment

<div>In this chilling, seamlessly-plotted thriller, British detective Jack Caffery must find a dangerous mental patient on the loose&mdash;before he can kill again . . . The Beechway High Secure Unit in Bristol, England, has a storied past&mdash;first as a nineteenth-century workhouse, then a poorhouse for the homeless, and now as a psychiatric hospital. With that troubled history come superstitions like the Maude, believed to be the ghost of a sadistic workhouse matron. But while some of the patients and staff think the Maude is behind a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm amongst the ward&rsquo;s patients, nursing coordinator AJ LeGrande thinks they might be the work of an all too human horror&mdash;a homicidal patient who was released back into the public in error. Calling on Det. Jack Caffery, LeGrande hopes his investigation will reveal what&rsquo;s truly been going on inside and outside the hospital&rsquo;s walls. But what Caffery discovers about former patient Isaac Handel is beyond anyone&rsquo;s imagining. &ldquo;Enough evil to keep readers awake long after the cases are solved . . . Rich psychological portraits [and] a compelling mystery.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &ldquo;Dipping into Poppet when the house was silent and the rain was spattering against the windows probably wasn&rsquo;t a good idea: The book oozes sinisterness from the first page . . . [Its] high-wire tension . . . never wavers.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly </div>

Poppet

<div>A serial killer stalks the streets of London in this &ldquo;top-notch debut thriller&rdquo;&mdash;the first Jack Caffery novel from the acclaimed author of Gone (Kirkus Reviews). In his first case as lead investigator with London&rsquo;s murder squad, Det. Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London. Mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area&mdash;all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the postmortem examination reveals a gruesome signature connecting the victims, Caffery realizes exactly what he&rsquo;s dealing with&mdash;a dangerous serial killer. A finalist for the Edgar Award, Birdman explores the darkest reaches of the human mind and introduces a fascinating detective to the world of British crime fiction. &ldquo;Treading the grisly path blazed by Thomas Harris in 1981 with Red Dragon, promising newcomer Hayder crafts a blood-curdlingly creepy debut thriller.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;A deftly plotted assault on the nerves . . . Birdman preys on the reader&rsquo;s expectations expertly, and Hayder handles her story&rsquo;s complicated time scheme with enviable assurance. Graphic, disturbing, splendidly readable.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Birdman

<div>A murder leads detective Jack Caffery into England&rsquo;s drug underground in this &ldquo;brilliant, dense, scary&rdquo; crime thriller in the Edgar Award&ndash;winning series (The Globe and Mail, Toronto). Nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there&rsquo;s no body attached is disturbing enough&mdash;until the discovery of the matching appendage a day later. Both hands have been freshly amputated, and there are indications that the victim was still alive when they were removed. Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol, DI Jack Caffery soon establishes that the hands belong to a young man who has recently disappeared. As Caffery and Marley search for the rest of the victim&mdash;and for his abductor&mdash;they journey into the darkest recesses of Bristol&rsquo;s underworld, where drug addiction is rife, street kids sell themselves for a hit, and a disturbing occult ritual may be making an unexpected appearance. &ldquo;Hayder . . . moves to another level in this spellbinder. With characters so complex, so fascinating that they could populate a dozen novels . . . Definitely one of the best crime novels of [the year].&rdquo; &mdash;The Globe and Mail &ldquo;Ritual moves from the eerie and dangerous to the downright ferocious as steadily as an oncoming train . . . You&rsquo;re going to love the ride.&rdquo; &mdash;Jack Ketchum, author of The Lost and The Girl Next Door &ldquo;Superb . . . Hayder vividly evokes torture and drug abuse, but the violence is never gratuitous. Readers looking for visceral thrills need look no further than this gritty English series.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review &ldquo;Hayder . . . outdoes herself, flip-flopping the supernatural and the explainable like a cycle of poison and antidote that will remain with the reader long after the final page.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review</div>

Ritual

<div>In this &ldquo;powerful and frightening&rdquo; British thriller, two estranged sisters confront a crime that exposes the nightmares that lurk at the edges of domesticity (Irish Independent). On a picture-perfect morning in Bath, England, a teenage girl&rsquo;s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Police detective Zoe Benedict is convinced the department head should look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the brutal murder case. But no one wants to hear any far-fetched ideas from the department&rsquo;s black sheep. Meanwhile, Zoe&rsquo;s sister, Sally, has started working as a housekeeper for a wealthy entrepreneur whose eccentricities are beginning to seem increasingly repugnant, and possibly dangerous. As Zoe digs into the case and Sally&rsquo;s suspicions grow, all signs point to one conclusion: There&rsquo;s something very wrong at the house on Hanging Hill. &ldquo;A chiller to the very end. Hayder deals with Britain at its grittiest.&rdquo; &mdash;Peter Millar, The Times (London) &ldquo;Mo Hayder has crafted a powerful and frightening thriller that grips the reader from page one to the blood-freezing shock of the final page. Utterly compelling.&rdquo; &mdash;Irish Independent &ldquo;[A] superbly plotted tale [with] an end more alarming than anything that comes before.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Daily News</div>

Hanging Hill

<div>A Jack Caffrey thriller from &ldquo;easily today&rsquo;s best writer of visceral and elemental horror . . . guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart.&rdquo; (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&rsquo;s Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone&mdash;or something&mdash;that 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 one&mdash;not even Caffery&mdash;can help her face. Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apart&mdash;or bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder&rsquo;s most horrifying villains yet. &ldquo;Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating.&rdquo; &mdash;The Times (London)</div>

Skin

<div>The Edgar Award&ndash;winning, internationally bestselling author delivers a bone-chilling novel about a family held hostage in their country home. Wolf kicks off when a vagrant&mdash;the Walking Man, an enigmatic, recurring character in Hayder&rsquo;s fiction&mdash;finds a dog wandering alone with a scrap of paper with the words &ldquo;HELP US&rdquo; attached to its collar. He&rsquo;s sure it&rsquo;s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Det. Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved&mdash;until the Walking Man promises to exchange new information regarding the childhood disappearance of Caffery&rsquo;s brother. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it&rsquo;s a race against time. Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives, held hostage in their remote home ten miles away. As their ordeal becomes increasingly bizarre and humiliating, the family begins to wonder: Is this really a random crime? &ldquo;The home invasion novel to end all home invasion novels . . . Wolf is exceptionally original in premise and nightmarish in its rendering.&rdquo;&mdash;BookPage</div>

Wolf

<div>&ldquo;Exceedingly creepy . . . The diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.&rdquo; &mdash;Entertainment Weekly With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder&rsquo;s The Devil of Nanking takes the reader on an electrifying literary ride from the palatial apartments of yakuza kingpins to deep inside the secret history of one of the twentieth century&rsquo;s most brutal events: the Nanking Massacre. A young Englishwoman obsessed with an indecipherable past, Grey comes to Tokyo seeking a lost piece of film footage of the notorious 1937 Nanking Massacre, footage some say never existed. Only one man can help Grey. A survivor of the massacre, he is now a visiting professor at a university in Tokyo. But he will have nothing to do with her. So Grey accepts a job in an upmarket nightspot, where a certain gangster may be the key to gaining the professor&rsquo;s trust. An old man in a wheelchair surrounded by a terrifying entourage, the gangster is rumored to rely on a mysterious elixir for his continued health. Taut, gritty, sexy, and harrowing, The Devil of Nanking is an incomparable literary thriller set in one of the world&rsquo;s most fascinating cities&mdash;Tokyo&mdash;from an internationally bestselling author. &ldquo;A haunting, lyrical, disturbing, important, suspenseful, wonderfully written and beautiful book.&rdquo; &mdash;Harlan Coben</div>

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Books By Mo Hayder (10 Books)

Pig Island

Gone

The Treatment

Poppet

Birdman

Ritual

Hanging Hill

Skin

Wolf

The Devil of Nanking

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