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Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered and dumped near the Millennium Dome in southeast London. A post-mortem examination tells the police they’re dealing with a sexual serial killer. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery knows he has only limited time before the sadistic killer strikes again.
Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this warped and brutally bloodthirsty thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. Guaranteed to mess with your mind, you'll be on the edge of your seat from start to finish... 'Mo Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers, and Pig Island surpasses anything she has written before. She's the bravest writer I know' -- Karin Slaughter 'The goriest thriller writer this side of the pond' -- Mirror 'No matter how much you might despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, she is brilliant at making you read on' -- Daily Telegraph 'Engrossing and a definite page turner' -- ***** Rea...
Bestselling and prize winning author Mo Hayder has expertly crafted an authentically disturbing, gripping, unsettling and engrossing thriller in Wolf. Perfect for fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter, this is one novel you won't be able to put down... 'Builds to its mesmerising climax with a brilliantly paced sense of menace. Masterful' - Sunday Mirror 'Terrifying' - Karin Slaughter 'Stunning' - Tess Gerritsen 'I was totally absorbed from the start. Bloody, intriguing, twisty and fast-paced.' -- ***** Reader review 'A cracker of a read' -- ***** Reader review 'Couldn't put it down, just brilliant.' -- ***** Reader review 'What a ride!' -- ***** Reader review ************...
“Exceedingly creepy . . . The diabolically gifted British author spins a fascinating mystery from the legacy of Japanese atrocities during World War II.” —Entertainment Weekly With the redolent atmosphere of Ian Rankin and the spine-chilling characters of Thomas Harris, Mo Hayder’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’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...
Bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder has penned another spine-tingling and stomach-churning thriller that is guaranteed to keep you turning the pages. Creepy, enthralling, twisty and very moving, Poppet is perfect for fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter. 'Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers' -- Karin Slaughter 'With Mo Hayder you never know where you are going until you get there' -- The Times 'Oozes sinisterness from the first page' -- Entertainment weekly 'Full of twists, turns and lots of tension . . . deliciously dark and creepy.' -- ***** Reader review 'Completely compulsive reading . . . gritty and often shocking.' -- ***** Re...
The Treatment is another gritty and gruesome thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. Utterly absorbing, it weaves a horrifying, gut-wrenching and compelling web, making it impossible to put down...or forget. Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will not be disappointed. 'One of the most frightening books I've ever read... Hayder's gory insights into the dark side are compelling' -- GUARDIAN 'Bleak, powerful... The Treatment is cleverly plotted and Caffery is a believable creation' -- OBSERVER 'Chilling... the book is surprisingly hard to put down. The plot develops with satisfying unpredictability; the characters are compellingly drawn... its final ...
Originally published: London: Bantam Press, 2009.
The author of "The Devil of Nanking" delivers a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures.
When a car is taken by force, with an eleven-year-old girl inside, Detective Jack Caffery knows this is a carjacking unlike any other. Sergeant Flea Marley, head of the Police Underwater Search Unit, has a theory that the car-jacker is far more dangerous than everyone thinks. Soon the perpetrator will choose another car with another child in the back seat...
The first in an epic series created by one of our finest and most inventive storytellers, also known as the international bestseller Mo Hayder Sand. A hostile world of burning sun.Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins.In the distance a group of people—a family—walks toward us.Ahead lies shelter: a “shuck” the family calls home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs.It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia, when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life—except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she’s beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is ...Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.