Mo Hayder
Paperback | Pages: 415 pages Rating: 3.75 | 6880 Users | 536 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Ritual |
| ISBN: | 0593056426 (ISBN13: 9780593056424) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jack Caffery #3, Walking Man #1 |
| Characters: | Jack Caffery, Flea Marley |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best British Crime Novel (2009), Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Nominee (2009) |
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Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet underwater, 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 - leads 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.
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| Title | : | Ritual (Jack Caffery #3) |
| Author | : | Mo Hayder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 415 pages |
| Published | : | March 10th 2008 by Random house (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 6880 Users | 536 ReviewsAssessment Out Of Books Ritual (Jack Caffery #3)
This is another excellent read, the third in the Jack Caffrey Policeman. The book clearly cemented Mo Hayder's status as she has gone on from strength to stregth. I really like the introduction here of two central characters, 'Flea' Marley and The Walking Man who various hold this plot together and look set to influence matters further. Marley is a counter-point to Caffrey and has an equally troubled background, indeed they are somewhat thrown together in this investigation and there is scopeI've really been on a Mo Hayder kick lately -- and I must be getting used to her, because this book didn't disturb me nearly as much as the other ones. Ritual is the third to feature Detective Jack Caffery, and this time Hayder has skipped ahead a few years, moved him out of London, and introduced a great new character, police diver Phoebe "Flea" Marley. The discovery of a pair of hands -- sans body -- kicks off an investigation that involves drug addicts and ancient rituals from Africa. As
Mo Hayder never ceases to amaze me with her ability to push the boundaries, to make the reader uncomfortable yet still yearning for more, leaving them unable to put the book down as they lose themselves in the world she's created for them. A master of creepy and suspense, the pages ooze with sinisterness and, best of all, unpredictability.
I had the hardest time finishing this book. I only made myself read the whole thing because I made the mistake of BUYING it instead of getting it from the library and I am too cheap to not finish a book I buy. I didn't like one detective at all and the other I had a hard time feeling anything for. It's not like I only read cozies but this was just way too gruesome, vicious, nasty and horrible for me. Just more gore than I really need from a mystery. It barely even felt like it was set in the UK
very good thriller good story, good plot. interesting characters it is the first one i have read of Mo Hayder and i will look definently for others. i liked the mux with the african world and its myths, with the world of diving and with the weird fellow the walking man.i found that there is a bit too much repeating of the dream connection between dead mother and her daughter and same with the main policeman and his long missing brother. we readers catch very quickly no need to feed with spoon.
Mo Hayder wrote two of my favorite crime novels of recent years Birdman and The Treatment, both of which married the British police procedural to something so dark and gruesome and impossibly heartbreaking that I honestly imagine it impossible not to be affected by their impact. Since then, I've read several of her other novels, which have succeeded to varying levels... and Ritual, I fear, may be the least effective one yet. It treads ground familiar to those who've read Birdman or The
As other reviewers have said, this is not Mo Hayder's best work. The first of the book went very slowly. I was confused often by the religious beliefs from Africa, the mystical things characters felt they were seeing, the deaths of Flea's parents, and her weird brother. The Walking Man seemed to come out of no where, and I think I missed something there. The story seemed to pick up when Flea and Caffery started to investigate together. In typical Hayder fashion, there were sick, twisted, creepy
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