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April 2011 Book of the Month.
Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011.
What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible, to go places you never knew existed. These are questions Sally has never really thought about before.
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Married to a successful business man, Sally has always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. Her sister Zoe is her polar opposite. A detective inspector working out of Bath Central, she loves her job, and oozes self-confidence. No one would guess that she hides a crippling secret that dates back twenty years, and which - if exposed - may destroy her. Then Sally's daughter gets into difficulties, and Sally finds she needs cash - lots of it - fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing. Two sisters intent on survival. Until one does something so terrifying that there's no way back ...
About This Edition
ISBN: |
9780593063835 |
Publication date: |
14th April 2011 |
Author: |
Mo Hayder |
Publisher: |
Bantam Press an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Format: |
Hardback |
Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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About Mo Hayder
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, which won the 2001 WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award, and Tokyo, all published by Bantam Books.
In 2011 Mo Hayder was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded to an author for a body of work.
Maxim Jakubowski's view on DI JACK CAFFERY...
A London cop in self-exile in Bristol who is running from his past, now working in tandem with a local female police diver. Not for the faint-hearted, a series that explores the heart of darkness and chills to the bones. SKIN is the 4th in the series.
Jack Caffery series:
1. Birdman (2000)
2. The Treatment (2001)
3. Ritual (2008)
4. Skin (2009)
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