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Skin
by Mo Hayder
 
 
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Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers. She is the bravest writer I know.
Karin Slaughter
 

When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she’s committed suicide. That’s how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away.

But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.

Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas of her past safely behind her, she’s beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. But then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort – it’s so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again.

And this time, no one – not even Caffery – can help her …

Hayder is the closest we've got to Stephen King ... the goriest thriller writer this side of the pond.
Mirror

Fast paced and absorbing...complex and gripping.
GUARDIAN

Warped ... bloodthirsty ... No matter how much you despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, Hayder is brilliant at making you read on.
Daily Telegraph

Hayder's gory insights into the dark are compelling.
Guardian

 

 

 

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Bantam • Crime & mystery
Publication Date: 19/11/2009 • 464 pages • 198 x 127 mm • ISBN: 0553820508
Territory: UK C/Wealth + EU ex Can • EAN: 9780553820508

 

 

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  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, Tokyo which was shortlisted for the CWA Gold and Silver Dagger Awards for Novels of the Year, 2004, and Pig Island. They are all published in paperback by Bantam Books.

For more information on Mo Hayder and her books, see her website at www.mohayder.net

   
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