Book description
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 ...
Mo Hayder has written some of the most terrifying crime thrillers
you will ever read. Her first novel, Birdman, was hailed as a
'first-class shocker' by the Guardian and her follow-up, The
Treatment was voted by the Times one of 'the top ten most scary
thrillers ever written'. In 2012 Gone won the
prestigious Edgars Best Novel award.
Mo left school at 15 and has worked as a barmaid, security guard,
English teacher, and even a hostess in a Tokyo club. She has an MA in
film making from the American University in Washington DC and an MA in
creative writing from Bath Spa University. She now lives in England's
West Country and is a full-time writer.
For more information on Mo Hayder and her books, see her website at
www. mohayder. net
