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When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the
wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Jack Caffery
isn’t so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a
connection to Elf’s Grotto, a bottomless network of flooded quarries just
outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator,
someone—or something—that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses
unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley,
but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close
to home that no one—not even Caffery—can help her face.
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“Easily today’s best writer of visceral and elemental horror, Hayder handles her genre specialty in a way guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart…this just could be the book that launches her beyond cult favorite to mainstream star.”
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Booklist (starred 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.