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Ritual

  • Imprint: Bantam

  • ISBN: 9780553820430

  • Length: 560  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 378g

  • RRP: £9.99

Ritual

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 ...

  • Imprint: Bantam

  • ISBN: 9780553820430

  • Length: 560  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 127mm

  • Weight: 378g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Mo Hayder is inimitable. She surpasses even Ruth Rendell in her ability to find horror in everyday things... Intensely enthralling

    OBSERVER

  • A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way

    GUARDIAN

  • A combination of irresistible prose and hateful subjects makes Hayder's books not-to-be-missed bestsellers

    LITERARY REVIEW

  • Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic

    DAILY MIRROR

  • If it's real terror you're after, Mo Hayder is your woman... Hayder is a brave writer and she requires brave readers

    DAILY MAIL

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About the Author

Mo Hayder

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's books are 100% authentic, drawing on her long research association with several UK police forces and on her personal encounters with criminals and prostitutes. She 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.

Mo Hayder

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