Ritual (Jack Caffrey Series Book III - Flea Marley Series Book I) PDF
Preview Ritual (Jack Caffrey Series Book III - Flea Marley Series Book I)
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her dive 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.
The First of Three Books to feature Police Diver Flea Marley, as a form of mini series, within the overall Jack Caffrey Series.
The Authors partner is a former Police Diver & Dive Team Leader, and she based her character on his experiences recovering dead bodies in England with the UK Police Service.
Unfortunately this mini series while completed after book III was meant to continue with Jack & Flea reuniting in a proposed fourth book, however the author died in 2021 of a motor neuron related illness and this will now not be taking place, the two books that she completed just prior to her death are set in a Fantasy type world with the first due for publication in 2022.
This book has also recently been filmed as 'Ritueel' and is to be released in early 2022 with Marie Vinck as the lead character based on Flea Marley, with the setting moved from England to Belgium & The Netherlands. This is the second Jack Caffrey novel to be filmed, with book II & III of Flea Marley's series now under preproduction in Belgium with the same cast.
Industry Reviews
"A combination of irresistible prose and hateful subjects makes Hayder's books not-to-be-missed bestsellers".
"Mo Hayder is inimitable.
She surpasses even Ruth Rendell in her ability to find horror in everyday things...
Intensely enthralling''
Guardian Australia.
Authors Details:
MO HAYDER left school at fifteen.
She worked as a barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia.
She had an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.
Mo was the Sunday Times bestselling author of ten stunning crime novels, including the Jack Caffery series.
Her fifth crime novel Ritual was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Crime 2009 and voted Best Book of 2008 by Publisher's Weekly.
She won the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2011.
Gone, her seventh novel, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award and her novel Wolf was nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Edgar Awards, and is currently being adapted for the BBC.
Set primarily in an alternate universe, her most recent novel, The Book of Sand, is the first in a series published posthumously under the author name THEO CLARE.
Mo Hayder was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2020 and passed away in July 2021.
She leaves behind a husband and a daughter, a powerful legacy of books, and an incredible number of people who loved and admired her.
Recommended for both Diving & Detective Fans.
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