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Praise for Mo Hayder
"The very best thing a writer can do is to thoroughly and completely immerse the reader in a strange new world. Mo Hayder does it to perfection"--Michael Connelly "Mo has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers... She's the bravest writer I know"--Karin Slaughter, author of Broken "I stand in awe of Mo Hayder's incomparable gifts as a storyteller."--Tess Gerritsen, author of the Rizzoli & Isles thrillers "The elaborate shock effects that define Hayder's savage style ultimately serve their purpose in a novel that taps into the current fascination with all things supernatural and questions our assumptions about a number of subjects, from faith healing to cultish religious groups and society's definition of evil." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Hayder shows herself to be a maestro of the sinister."-- New York Daily News Praise for Gone "Artfully constructed....Chilling....Shocks are in store."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Riveting . . . Hayder keeps the tension high. . . . The meticulously crafted plot is heightened by Hayder's skillful evocation of mood as she summons the specter of a highly intelligent criminal who is taking great satisfaction from every parent's worst nightmare. A captivating thriller."-- Booklist (starred review) "Hayder writes some of the most carefully plotted, gripping and downright scary books in the mystery genre, and Gone continues that tradition in fine form."--Bruce Tierney, Bookpage "Mo Hayder's gritty, intense thriller series featuring detectives Jack Caffery and Flea Marley is a must for anyone who likes breakneck timing and detectives who walk on the dark side."--Carol Schneck, The Daily News "A brilliantly plotted mystery that keeps you guessing not only who the villain is, but what exactly he's after . . . First-rate mystery that takes full advantage of the wintry, moonlit West Country and the unusual skills of its lady diver."-- Kirkus Reviews "A carjacking goes from bad to horrifying in Hayder's gripping fifth thriller....Hayder expertly brings to life the claustrophobia of Flea's dives and the emotional burden of the case on Jack." -Publishers Weekly "With her latest, Gone, Mo Hayder takes you to the edge, then pushes you over in a heart-pounding rush of a story that will leave you battered and bruised, and wanting more." --Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing "Gone, [Hayder's] latest novel published in America, is one of those books that dares you to put it down once you've started reading and then challenges you to forget it once you have finished.... The only way you can read Gone without having every nerve in your body jumping and screaming is if you are not paying attention. .... Hayder is a storyteller par excellence...[who] continues to drop charges into the water until practically the last paragraph. If you have read her previous works, you know what I'm talking about. If you're new to her craftsmanship, read Gone and be enthralled. Strongly recommended." --Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter.com "Twisty, fast-moving and often creepy ...While Hayder does a bang-up job larding her page-turning plot with blind alleys and unexpected curves, it is her in-depth character portrayals, especially of the mothers of the missing girls, that give the novel its depth and complexity."--Debra Ginsberg, Shelf Awareness (online) "The reader is kept rapt for more or less the first half of the book just by the mystery of the identity of the hijacker, and what he may have done to the child [shudder]. Then there is a sudden shift in intensity, as the plot takes unexpected and quite startling twists and turns, and from that point on I could not put the book down till its conclusion, breath held a good part of the way there."-- Murder by Type (online) "I deduced that this was yet another suspense story about vanished children. If it's possible for a subject to be, at once, horrifying and humdrum, this is the one...But when I started reading, I discovered that the thing I was most dreading - that hoary plot - turned out to be the novel's greatest pleasure...It's a tribute to Hayder's powers as a suspense writer that she completely turns the over-familiar premise of this novel inside out and upside down. The more pages of Gone that we captivated readers turn, the farther away we get from cliched thriller conventions."--Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post "Hayder keeps getting better...This is an incredibly gripping story that makes one snatch any opportunity to read even a page or two and to stay up late to reach the satisfying conclusion." --Joe Strebel, Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL "Gone is a classic tension-filled thriller, elevated by Hayder's characterization and her facility with description ...The final pages bring surprising revelations and the story ends with a shocking bang."--Leslie Doran, Mystery Science Magazine "Where she differs from her peers is her almost outlandish imagination. Hayder pushes the boundaries of what's been said and written before... Brilliantly perceptive portrayals of the victims and very clever, sympathetic plotting, not to mention an acute capturing of police procedure - Gone is Mo Hayder's most compulsive thriller yet." --Daily Mirror (UK) "Anyone who enjoys intelligent, well-crafted plots and efficient, glowing writing will enjoy Mo Hayder. This is the fifth book in the Jack Caffery series and could well be the best. Mo Hayder raises the bar high when it comes to crime fiction and she's done it again with this clever, stomach-churning, fast-paced, top-notch thriller."This - in my opinion - is the best of the Caffery thrillers so far. And it has a totally hair-raising ending. So be warned: putting this book down is not an option; it wasn't for me when I first read it, and it's really, really not now. Mo has always had a bit of a thing for Jack Caffery - see her afterword in the back of the paperback of Ritual - and the result is that he's one of the most interesting murder detectives working in the genre today.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL* FINALIST FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER "Mo Hayder takes you to the edge, then pushes you over in a heart-pounding rush of a story that will leave you battered and bruised, and wanting more."--Chevy Stevens, New York Times bestselling author of Still Missing An excruciatingly suspenseful thriller that follows the investigation of a brilliant and twisted carjacker with a disturbing game to play He watches. He waits. He takes what isn't his. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery's newest case seems like a routine carjacking, a crime he's seen plenty of times before. But as the hours tick by and tormenting letters arrive from the carjacker, he realizes the sickening truth: the thief wasn't after the car, but the 11-year-old girl in the backseat. Who is still missing. Meanwhile, police diver Sergeant Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel in rural Gloucestershire could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always a step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and Caffery is certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. As the clock ticks down, Jack and Flea race to fit the pieces together before it's too late. Gone is Mo Hayder at her terrifying best. Each dark and captivating twist reveals a new dimension to this tight-knit plot, burrowing deeper into the chilling and clever world Hayder creates. Seller Inventory # CIN0802145701G
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