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The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. And now fear has spread from the inmates to the staff. DI Jack Caffery is called to investigate, whilst working the most impossible case of his life. Will he be able to stare pure evil in the eye, and survive?
About the author
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.
Summary
The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. And now fear has spread from the inmates to the staff. DI Jack Caffery is called to investigate, whilst working the most impossible case of his life. Will he be able to stare pure evil in the eye, and survive?
Foreword
The heartstopping new Jack Caffery novel - a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
