Mo Hayder

Greenwich, al sudeste de Londres. El inspector Jack Caffery -joven, compulsivo, impasible- acude al lugar donde se ha cometido uno de los crímenes más espantosos que jamás ha visto. Cinco prostitutas han sido asesinadas de manera ritual y arrojadas a un descampado cerca del Millenium Dome. Las autopsias posteriores revelan la existencia de una truculenta firma que vincula a todas las víctimas. Caffery se da cuenta pronto de que está tras la pista de una de las figuras delictivas más peligrosas: un asesino en serie. Molesto por la desconfianza hacia él dentro de las fuerzas policiales y obsesionado por el recuerdo de una muerte muy cercana en su infancia, Caffery utiliza todas las armas que la ciencia forense le ofrece para cazar al asesino. Sabe que solo es cuestión de tiempo que ese sádico criminal actúe de nuevo…

En este descarnado thriller psicológico, tercera entrega de la serie del inspector Caffery, Mo Hayder se mueve con desenvoltura entre lo sobrenatural y lo científico, con un ritmo vertiginoso que no da tregua al lector hasta la ultima pagina.Un martes de mayo, en las turbias aguas del puerto de Bristol, la oficial Phoebe Marley, del equipo de buzos de la policia, encuentra sumergida a mas de dos metros bajo el agua una mano humana. El hecho de que la extremidad no vaya unida a cuerpo alguno ya resulta perturbador de por si; pero aun lo es mas el hallazgo de la otra mano, al dia siguiente y en un lugar distinto. Ambas parecen haberle sido amputadas a la victima recientemente, y todo apunta a que se hizo mientras estaba aun con vida.El inspector Jack Caffery, encargado del caso, llega pronto a la conclusion de que las manos pertenecen a un joven yonqui desaparecido en las ultimas semanas. Mientras Caffery se centra en una linea de trabajo relacionada con la droga, Marley descubre una posible conexion con la muti, brujeria tradicional africana que hace un uso ritual de miembros seccionados. Su empeño por esclarecer los hechos llevara a la pareja de investigadores hasta los mas sordidos rincones de la ciudad, donde acecha una diabolica amenaza...

Night is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he chosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffrey find where the child has been hidden? Before it's too late ...

The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Amberly Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for the corpse of a missing woman. He knows all too well how it feels to fail to find a loved one's body. When AJ seeks Caffery's help in investigating the trouble at Amberly, each man must face a bitter truth in his own life. Before staring pure evil in the eye.

The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. Unexplained power cuts have lead to a series of horrifying incidents. And now fear has spread from the inmates to the staff. DI Jack Caffery is called to investigate, whilst working the most impossible case of his life. Will he be able to stare pure evil in the eye, and survive?

The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent.Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned.Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated hilltop house . . . the nightmare is about to return.

Student Grey Hutchins has come to Tokyo because of an obsession. Vulnerable and on the edge, she is searching for a fragment of film supposedly taken during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese murdered 300,000 civilians. Some say the film doesn't exist. The only man who can help is a survivor of the Massacre. Immersed in his books and wary of strangers, this man will at first have nothing to do with Grey. Increasingly desperate, she accepts a hostess job at an exclusive nightspot catering for businessmen and gangsters, and it is here she comes to the attention of one particular man. Ancient, wheel-chair bound and guarded by a terrifying nurse, it is rumoured he relies on a strange elixir for his continued well-being - an elixir others want, at any price...With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, "Tokyo" grabs the reader and refuses to let go until its shattering final pages.

The suspense is relentless in The Treatment, an emotional powerhouse of a thriller that brings back Jack Caffery, the detective from Mo Hayders acclaimed novel Birdman. A masterful blend of psychological insight and forensic detail, Hayders latest thriller is as chilling as it is heartbreaking, a gritty, gripping tour de force of suspense. It is a perfect summer day in Londons up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been taken prisoner in their own home and their young son has disappeared. But the final horror of their terrifying ordeal is still to be revealed. Called in to investigate, Jack Caffery tries desperately to make sense of the meager clues found at the crime scene. But the echoes of a devastating disappearance in his own past make it impossible for him to view the crime objectively. And as Jack digs deeper, as the disturbing parallels between past and present mount, the real nightmares begin...

Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will love this gut-churning, deep and darkly compelling thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. A read you won't forget in a hurry... 'Lacerating' -- Independent'Stomach-churning, fast-paced, top-notch' -- Sunday Express'A particularly potent blend of terror and horror' -- The Times'Nothing short of brilliant' -- Daily Mail'An absolute page turner' -- ***** Reader review'Read it...

En un solar en construcción de Londres se encuentra el cadáver de una mujer mutilada, diseccionada y con un pájaro vivo cosido dentro del pecho. El inspector Jack Caffrey sospecha que se trata de un asesino en serie. Y tiene razon: no tardan en encontrar cuatro cuerpos mas mutilados de la misma forma. El inspector es victima de sus propios demonios, vive obsesionado con la desaparicion de su hermano, y mantiene una relacion un tanto atipica en Veronica, una mujer que le miente para que no la abandone.

Dans ce thriller littéraire de haut vol, Tokyo est une métropole futuriste regorgeant de secrets glaçants. Âmes sensibles s'abstenir : l'horreur monte crescendo, jusqu'au vertige. " Le passé est une bombe. Une fois que ses éclats sont en nous, ils parviendront toujours a remonter a la surface. " Grey débarque a Tokyo sans argent ni bagages. Hantée par un passé tumultueux, elle a quitté son Angleterre natale dans le seul but de retrouver un film qui l'obsède : des images d'archives qui seraient l'unique témoignage des atrocités commises par les Japonais a Nankin en 1937. Perdue dans cette ville étrangère, la jeune femme rencontre un survivant du massacre - devenu professeur d'université - et Jason, un homme fascinant qui lui propose de devenir hôtesse dans un club de luxe fréquenté par des hommes d'affaires et des yakuzas. Parmi eux, un étrange infirme accompagné d'une nurse a la silhouette monstrueuse...

Not only is it far too close to home for comfort - its so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again. And this time, no one - not even Caffery - can help her ...

The Victim: A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message 'all like her' is crudely written on her body. The Silence: The dead girl's friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know? The Fear: Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoe Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoe's own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice ...and destroy her too. Tense, thrilling and brilliantly original, Hanging Hill reveals the evil side of human nature and the terrible things normal people can do...