Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
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.
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It might be advisable to read Ritual before you read Skin as there are certain plot follow-ups to Ritual in this book. Mo Hayder is a writer who can be quite graphic with her descriptions of murders but if you can handle that you will find her a gripping and fascinating story teller.
A Jack Caffrey thriller from ';easily today's best writer of visceral and elemental horror... guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart.' (Booklist, starred review) 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, someoneor somethingthat 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 onenot even Cafferycan help her face. Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apartor bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder's most horrifying villains yet. ';Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating.' The Times (London)
