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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. Even more disturbing is the discovery of the matching hand a day later. 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 young man who has recently disappeared. Their search 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 one of Africa’s most disturbing rituals may be making an unexpected appearance.
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“Hayder keeps us guessing not only about what is happening but also about who these people are. The familiar becomes the horribly unfamiliar as, with clinical precision and yet palpable compassion, she once again reveals the human heart to be the most damaged body part of all.”
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Barnes & Noble, editorial review
About Mo Hayder
Mo Hayder has
worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English language teacher.
She is the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone and the 2011 Crime
Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work.
She is also the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The Devil of Nanking, Pig
Island, Ritual, Skin, and Hanging Hill. She lives in England.