Mo Hayder Books In Order

Jack Caffery Books In Publication Order

Birdman (1999)
The Treatment (2001)
Ritual (2008)
Skin (2009)
Gone (2010)
Poppet (2013)
Wolf (2014)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Tokyo / The Devil of Nanking (2004)
Pig Island (2006)
Hanging Hill (2010)

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Mo Hayder Books Overview

Birdman

Your worst nightmare is his dream come true…
.A relentless debut novel filled with cutting edge forensic and investigative detail, Birdman marks the arrival of a uniquely talented writer. Detective Jack Caffery young, driven, and seemingly unshockable catches a career making or career breaking homicide in his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad. A young woman’s body has been discovered, dumped on wasteland near the Millennium Dome site in Greenwich, England. It’s the most brutal degradation of the human form that the squad has ever uncovered. Caffery’s well deserved reputation is that of the most stoic of detectives, but his initial inspection of the corpse will forever sear his psyche. One by one, four more corpses are discovered only steps away from the first. Five bodies, all young women, all ritualistically murdered with cunning precision. And when a postmortem examination reveals a singular, macabre signature linking the victims, Caffery realizes that he’s facing the most dangerous offender known to the force: a sexual serial killer. In the murky recesses of his own mind, Caffery harbors the haunting legacy of a loved one’s slaying. What baffles him is that not a single missing person’s report has been filed for any of the five young women. How has the Birdman chosen these seemingly perfect victims?Now, as he employs every weapon forensic science can offer, Caffery knows that time is running out before the killer strikes again, and that he must put away his tortured past in order to safeguard the Birdman‘s next prey. With refined craft and beguiling imagination, Mo Hayder is certain to skip the hearts of the most demanding readers of crime fiction.

The Treatment

The troubled hero of Mo Hayder’s Birdman, which ‘gripped the mind even as it quickened the pulse’ New York Times, returns in an expertly crafted chiller that brings him face to face with haunting memories and palpable fears. A riveting mixture of psychological intrigue and forensic detail, Birdman introduced a compelling new voice to the thriller genre. Kirkus Reviews pronounced it a ‘top notch debut thriller, a deftly plotted assault on the nerves.’ Elle magazine promised, ‘It ll scare the hell out of you.’ In The Treatment, Mo Hayder once again plumbs the darkest recesses of the human mind as she sends Detective Jack Caffery on the trail of a villain capable of unspeakable perversion. It is the middle of the summer in Brockwell Park, a pleasant residential area in London. Behind the placid facade of one house, a man and his wife lie tied up and imprisoned in their own home. When they are discovered, badly dehydrated and bearing the marks of a brutal beating, they reveal one final horror: Their young son has disappeared. Called in to investigate, Jack Caffery uses all the tricks of the forensic investigator s trade to piece together the scanty clues at the crime scene. But the echoes of a heartrending disappearance in his own past make it almost impossible for him to view the crime with scientific detachment. As Jack digs deeper, attempting to hold his own life together as the disturbing parallels between past and present mount, the real nightmares begin.

Ritual

Mo Hayder’s previous novels The Devil of Nanking and The Treatment have ranked her among the most exciting and provocative thriller writers now working. In her latest, Ritual, Hayder gives us 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. 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. Even 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 hand belong to a young man 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 one of Africa’s most disturbing Rituals may be making an unexpected appearance.

Skin

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, someone or something 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 not even Caffery can help her face. Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apart or bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder’s most horrifying villains yet.

Gone

Praised as a maestro of the sinister by the New York Daily News, Mo Hayder delivers her most suspenseful novel to date. By turns thrilling and horrifying, Gone follows the investigation of a brilliant and twisted carjacker with a disturbing game to play. Jack Caffery’s newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he s seen plenty of times before. But as the hours tick by and his investigation morphs into a nightmare, he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn t after the car, but the eleven year old girl in the backseat. Meanwhile police diver Sergeant 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 a step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, toying with their minds in taunting letters and ready to strike again. As the chances for his victims grow slimmer, Jack and Flea race to fit the pieces together in time. Gone is Mo Hayder at her terrifying best. Each dark and captivating twist reveals a new dimension to this tight knight plot, burrowing deeper into the chilling and clever world Mo Hayder creates.

Tokyo / The Devil of Nanking

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 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’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’s most fascinating cities Tokyo from an internationally best selling author.

Pig Island

The acclaimed author ofThe Devil of Nankingreturns with a riveting, disturbing thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side of belief. 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. On the trial 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 pigs skulls to infiltrate the territory of the groups isolated founder, Malachi Dove. Their confrontation, and its violent aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oakes to question the nature of evil and whether he might be responsible for the heinous crime about to unfold. Startling and uncompromising,Pig Islandconfirms Mo Hayder as one of the most talented, compelling thriller writers now working.

Hanging Hill

Mo Hayder, internationally best selling author of Skin and Gone, has firmly established her reputation as a master of gritty, gripping page turners. Fast paced and addictive, her latest, Hanging Hill, centers around a pair of estranged sisters, one a policeman, and the gruesome homicide of a teenage beauty which leads them deeper than they ever anticipated into an underground world of sex and violence. One morning in picture perfect Bath, England, a teenage girl’s body is found on the towpath of a canal. Lorne Wood beautiful, popular, and apparently the victim of a brutal murder. Why was she on the towpath late at night alone? Zoe Benedict Harley riding police detective, independent to a fault is convinced the department head needs to look beyond the usual domestic motives to solve the case. Meanwhile Zoe s sister Sally recently divorced and supporting a daughter who was friends with the dead girl has begun working as a housekeeper for a rich entrepreneur who quickly begins to seem less eccentric than repugnant, and possibly dangerous. When Zoe s investigation uncovers evidence that Lorne s attempts to break into modeling had delivered her into the world of webcam po*rn, a crippling secret from Zoe s past seems determined to emerge.