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2000s: A disturbing case in Bristol – and a city seen through the eyes of crime and horror queen Mo Hayder. Be warned this is Hayder’s Bristol
Skin (Jack Caffery 4)
What you need to know before your trail
The decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol. Has she committed suicide? The police would prefer that but it may not be the case after all.
DI Jack Caffery is on someone’s trail – someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. Not a man scared easy, he is definitely disturbed.
Flea makes a shocking discovery. Nothing will be the same again. Not even Caffery can help her this time.
Travel Guide
Mendip Hills of Somerset
Deep in the rain soaked Mendip Hills of Somerset lie eight flooded limestone quarries…..
The quarries hold secrets that will soon be revealed and both the quarries and the surrounding area are places of torture and sadness.
This landscape near Bristol is the stomping ground and investigation area of this latest case and Police Diver Sergeant Flea Marley of Avon and Somerset’s diving division – in quarry number eight looking for the body of Lucy Mahoney
Jack Caffery gets himself on the case when he sees another one with the same MO. Bristol’s major crime investigation unit is certainly got its work cut out
One string of quarries is called Elf’s Grotto and is also called a suicide spot but its the landscape – the pillars and twisted ceilings ‘like the catacombs of an ancient cathedral’ which scar the landscape here.
Scarred landscapes, scarred people and it’s those you can’t see that hurt you the most…
Africa
The African storyline of the previous book continues here and the dark undertones and the rituals portrayed are continued here. The events take place not long after those in Ritual.
As with that book, the rituals associated with the Tokoloshe a mischievous and evil spirit that becomes invisible when it drinks water. They are called upon to cause trouble for others and in extreme cases is said to be able to cause illness and death.Only a witch doctor can help.
Not sure which landscape is the most scary. Both highly evocative so you may wish the writing was not quite so vivid!
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