Mo Hayder's first novel, Birdman, was hailed as 'a first-class shocker' by the Guardian, and her follow-up, The Treatment, was voted by The Times as 'one of the top ten most scary thrillers ever written'. With the last Jack Caffery thriller, Gone, she won the prestigious Edgars Best Book award. Poppet is the sixth novel to feature DI Jack Caffery, and the fourth in the Walking Man series. For more information, see www.mohayder.net
Hayder keeps you guessing adroitly - and has in Caffrey, a maverick cop so fascinatingly weird that he makes Ian Rankin's Rebus seems a stolid conformist * Sunday Times, Culture * Builds to its mesmerising climax with a brilliantly paced sense of menace. Masterful * Sunday Mirror *