Skin: A Novel (Jack Caffery Thrillers #4)

By: Mo Hayder

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Synopsis: A Jack Caffrey thriller from &“easily today&’s best writer of visceral and elemental horror . . . guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart.&” (Booklist, starred review) In her eerie and hair-raising thriller Skin, Mo Hayder trails her two unforgettable protagonists as they race to staunch a rising tide of blood in a sweltering port town. 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 is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf&’s Grotto, a nearly 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. Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apart—or bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder&’s most horrifying villains yet. &“Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating.&” —The Times (London)