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Birdman by Mo Hayder

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Also by Mo Hayder:

Gone, February 2010
Hardcover
Skin, January 2010
Hardcover
Ritual, October 2009
Paperback
Pig Island, August 2008
Paperback
Birdman, October 2000
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BIRDMAN
By: Mo Hayder

Jack Caffery #1
Dell
October 2000
On Sale: October 10, 2000
Featuring: Jack Caffery
448 pages
ISBN: 0440236169
EAN: 9780440236160
Mass Market Paperback
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With the forensic acumen ofΒ Β  Patricia Cornwell and the atmosphere of Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect series, Birdman - already an international sensation prior to publication - introduces a troubled homicide detective battling the demons of his past while facing the psychopath of the century.

In the chilling opening to Birdman, the bodies of five women are found, ritualistically mutilated and dumped on wasteland in Greenwich, England. When post-mortem examinations reveal a single, horrific signature linking the victims - a tiny bird sewn into each chest - the police realize they are on the trail of a serial killer with a terrifying mind.

Detective Inspector Jack Caffery, young,driven, unshockable, finds himself facing both hostilities within the force and his own memory of a lethal failure, as he struggles to unravel the most macabre murders he's ever seen. Now, as he employs every weapon science can offer, he knows he has little time before the sadistic killer strikes again. But he has so little evidence. All he has are five mutilated corpses and five dead little birds.

Mo Hayder - withΒ Β a keen psychological insight, brilliant forensic and procedural detail, and a psychically wounded but charismatic lead investigator - has written a first novel of raw intensity and deep understanding that will thrill the hearts of the most demanding readers of crime fiction.