Ritual: Featuring Jack Caffrey, star of BBC’s Wolf series. A gripping and compelling thriller from the...

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Mo Hayder

Ritual

Featuring Jack Caffrey, star of BBC’s Wolf series. A gripping and compelling thriller from the...

Mo Hayder

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English

Bantam
01 March 2010

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Jack Caffery

DI Jack Caffery is back on the beat in Mo Hayder's terrifying new bestseller.

Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this dark and disturbing thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder.

Expertly weaving ancient rites with modern forensics, it draws you in and paints a picture so vivid and compelling in the mind, you'll be hooked from page one...

'Intensely enthralling' - OBSERVER 'Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic' -- DAILY MIRROR 'A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way' - GUARDIAN 'Really can recommend and I'm not one for giving the story away so try it yourself and you won't be disappointed!' --
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* Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand.

Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.

DI Jack Caffery has been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.

Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

By: Mo Hayder
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 377g
ISBN: 9780553820430
ISBN 10: 0553820435
Series: Jack Caffery
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 01 March 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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, Tokyo, and Pig Island, all of which have been Sunday Times bestsellers.

Reviews for Ritual: Featuring Jack Caffrey, star of BBC’s Wolf series. A gripping and compelling thriller from the bestselling author

Mo Hayder is inimitable. She surpasses even Ruth Rendell in her ability to find horror in everyday things... Intensely enthralling OBSERVER 20080316 A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way GUARDIAN 20080315 A combination of irresistible prose and hateful subjects makes Hayder's books not-to-be-missed bestsellers LITERARY REVIEW Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic DAILY MIRROR 20080307 If it's real terror you're after, Mo Hayder is your woman... Hayder is a brave writer and she requires brave readers DAILY MAIL