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Ritual
The First Book in the Walking Man series
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$22.95 |
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15/09/2008 |
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Trade PB
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DI Jack Caffery, the hero of Mo Hayder’s bestselling novels Birdman
and The Treatment, is back. Seconded from London to Bristol, Caffery is
trying to leave his personal life behind, but he cannot escape the memories of
his younger brother’s murder and the suspect who went free. When police diver
Sergeant Phoebe “Flea” Marley discovers a freshly severed human hand in
Bristol’s harbour and its mate buried under a restaurant’s doorstep, Caffery is
there to lead the investigation. But rather than find answers, or a body to
match those hands, Caffery and Flea discover a terrifying underworld of drug
addiction, ritual mutilation and muti, African medicine magic.
Tormented by his personal demons, Caffery seeks out the
company of the infamous Walking Man, a recently released convict from a
high-security prison, who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives
the memories of a terrifying crime. Flea Marley has her own ghosts to
confront—the cave-diving death of her parents in a cold, water-filled hole in
South Africa—and a frightening personal association with the crime she and
Caffery are investigating.
Britain’s “Queen of Fear” has once again proven herself a
master of her craft. Ritual is a gripping psychological thriller, a chilling
story seen through the eyes of complex characters and told with masterful voice
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Skin
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near some railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she committed suicide. That’s how the police want it too -- all neatly squared away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone...
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Ritual
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley—haunted by the recent mysterious death of her parents—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...
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