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Mo Hayder

    1. január 1962 – 27. júl 2021

    Mo Hayderová, autorka, ktorej literárna cesta začala po predčasnom odchode zo školy, si počas svojho života osvojila rôznorodé profesie, od barmanky po učiteľku angličtiny v Ázii. Tieto skúsenosti formovali jej jedinečný pohľad na svet, ktorý teraz prenáša do svojich diel. Jej písanie je hlboko zakorenené v psychologickom napätí a skúma temnejšie stránky ľudskej povahy s prenikavou inteligenciou. Týmto spôsobom vytvára napínavé príbehy, ktoré čitateľov nútia k zamysleniu.

    Mo Hayder
    Birdman
    Tokyo
    Jack Caffery - 5: Gone
    The Treatment
    Poppet
    Wolf
    • The sensational new Jack Caffery thriller from Mo Hayder, bestselling author of Gone and Poppet. Who's afraid?I believe, from what I can hear, that either my daughter or my wife has just been attacked. I don't know the outcome. The house is silent. Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The…

      Wolf
      4,5
    • The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. Unexplained power cuts have lead to a series of horrifying incidents. 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?

      Poppet
      4,2
    • A husband and wife are found imprisoned in their London home and their young son is missing. DI Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, but similar events from his own past make it hard for him to view this crime with the necessary detatchment.

      The Treatment
      4,1
    • Jack Caffery - 5: Gone

      • 560 stránok
      • 20 hodin čítania

      Night is falling in the West Country as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he choosing his targets? And - most urgent of all - can Caffrey find where the child has been hidden? Before it's too late ...

      Jack Caffery - 5: Gone
      4,0
    • Tokyo

      • 479 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      Student Grey Hutchins has come to Tokyo because of an obsession. Vulnerable and on the edge, she is searching for a fragment of film supposedly taken during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese murdered 300,000 civilians. Some say the film doesn't exist. The only man who can help is a survivor of the Massacre. He works at the university, immersed in his books and wary of strangers, he will at first have nothing to do with Grey. Increasingly desperate and alone in this alien city, she accepts a hostess job at an exclusive nightspot catering for businessmen and gangsters and it is there she comes to the attention of one particular man. Ancient, wheel-chair bound and guarded by a terrifying nurse, it is rumoured he relies on a strange elixir for his continued well-being - an elixir others want, at any price. It is from here that will Grey unearth the horror that links the present with the past... With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, TOKYO grabs the reader and refuses to let go until its shattering final pages.

      Tokyo
      4,0
    • Birdman

      • 409 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      Set in South East London, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery follows the Met's crack murder squad on their grisly mission of tracking down a sadistic sexual serial killer who has claimed five victims already.

      Birdman
      3,9
    • Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, 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. 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 - lead 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 ...

      Ritual
      3,8
    • Skin

      • 464 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      When the decomposed body of a young woman is found by near railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen.And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery.Having come to terms with the loss of her parents, and with the traumas of her past safely behind her, she's beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. And then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort - but it's so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again.And that this time, no one - not even Caffery - can help her ...

      Skin
      3,8
    • Pig Island

      • 496 stránok
      • 18 hodin čítania

      SEE EVILJournalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes.But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew. HEAR EVILWhy have

      Pig Island
      3,7
    • The Book of Sand

      • 608 stránok
      • 22 hodin čítania

      SAND. A hostile world of burning sun. Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins. In the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us. Ahead lies shelter- a 'shuck' the family call home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death. To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs. It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life - except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she's beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is ... Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.

      The Book of Sand
      3,9
    • Hanging Hill

      • 432 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      What if you found yourself divorced, penniless and with a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do thing you never thought possible? These are the questions Sally has never really thought about before. Until now. Her sister Zoe is a detective inspector working out of Bath Central. No one would guess that she hide a crippling secret that date back twenty years, and which - if exposed - may destroy her. -- back cover

      Hanging Hill
      3,9
    • THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER MO HAYDER, WITH A FOREWORD FROM KARIN SLAUGHTER

      Bonehead
    • Bonehead

      The Gripping New Crime Thriller from the International Bestseller

      A terrifying accident leaves Alex Mullins grappling with survival after a fatal coach crash at her school reunion claims the lives of several classmates. Although she escaped a grisly fate, she is haunted by a vision of a skeletal woman known as the Bonehead, who is said to bring misfortune to those who see her. Now a police officer in Gloucestershire, Alex strives to move past the trauma by helping others. However, her life begins to unravel when she encounters someone from that fateful night. As she delves deeper into the mystery of the crash, she must confront the truth of what happened and what it will take for the Bonehead to finally leave her alone. This new crime thriller promises to terrify, showcasing the author's masterful ability to shock and surprise. With a blend of forensic detail, thrills, and poetic imagery, the narrative captivates from the first page. Critics have praised the writing for its haunting and lyrical quality, describing it as both disturbing and important. Prepare for a gripping journey filled with suspense and a chilling exploration of fear and survival.

      Bonehead
    • Les Lames - French edition

      • 573 stránok
      • 21 hodin čítania

      Le corps de Lorn Wood, ado populaire, vient d'être retrouvé au milieu des bois. Son meurtrier s'est acharné. La police suspecte qu'au moment de la tuer, il lui a coincé une balle de tennis dans la bouche pour l'empêcher de hurler. Depuis cette découverte, Sally ne dort plus: Millie, sa fille de 15 ans, connaissait Lorn... Comme tout le monde de la petite ville de Bath. D'ailleurs, c'est Zoé, la sieur de Sally, qui enquête sur le crime. La descente aux enfers sera collective. Version française de "Hanging Hill"

      Les Lames - French edition
      4,1
    • Hriešnik

      • 279 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      V kaplnke Našej Panej Božieho svetla ležia dve mníšky – jedna mŕtva, druhá kriticky zranená, obete nevýslovne surového útočníka. Brutálny zločin na prvý pohľad nemá motív, no pri pitve mŕtvej ženy súdna lekárka Maura Islesová zistí, že dvadsaťročná sestra Camille pred smrťou porodila. Vzápätí nájdu ďalšie telo zohavené na nepoznanie. Doktorka Islesová spolu s detektívkou Jane Rizzoliovou pomaly odhaľujú starobylú hrôzu spájajúcu tieto príšerné masakre.

      Hriešnik
      4,0
    • Vogelman

      Thriller

      • 349 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania
      Vogelman
    • When the decomposed body of a young woman is found by near railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away.But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen.And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery.Having come to terms with the loss of her parents, and with the traumas of her past safely behind her, she's beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional.And then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort - but it's so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again.And that this time, no one - not even Caffery - can help her ...

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