Skin
Featuring Jack Caffrey, star of BBC’s Wolf series. A tense and terrifying thriller from the bestselling author
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4.3 • 76 Ratings
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- £5.99
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Publisher Description
This dark and disturbing, edge-of-your-seat thriller is perfect for fans of Stephen King, Karin Slaughter and Stuart MacBride.
'Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers. She is the bravest writer I know' Karin Slaughter
'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
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YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING THIS KILLER WANTS...
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, everything points to 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 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. . .
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Readers can't put this horrifying and chilling book down:
'A story I found hard to put down'
'Gripping to the very end'
'My night-time reading - so good it's a wonder l go to sleep at all!'
'A proper page-turning thriller'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Det. Insp. Jack Caffery of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Unit looks into the case of Misty Kitson, a footballer's wife who vanished from rehab, in Hayder's chilling thriller, which picks up a few days after the grisly climax of 2008's Ritual. Caffery is distracted by the apparent suicide of a young man who he's convinced shows signs of mutilation similar to the victims of muti, the African black magic that figured in the previous book. Meanwhile, Sgt. Phoebe "Flea" Marley, a police diver, is busy exploring a series of flooded quarries in search of a missing woman, but her mind is elsewhere, too: the discovery that her brother, Thom, plays a vital role in Misty's much publicized disappearance. After two more alleged suicides, Caffery isn't sure if he's imagining a connection to muti, or if the answer is closer to home but no less deadly. Hayder captures the claustrophobia of Flea's dives in unsettling detail and continues to build on her two damaged heroes.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
Such a great read