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Grove Press
January 2010
On Sale: January 1, 2010
Featuring: Jack Caffery; Flea Marley
288 pages
ISBN: 0802119301
EAN: 9780802119308
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Author of the internationally best-selling novels The Devil
of Nanking and Ritual, Mo Hayder has earned a reputation of
one of the most blood-chilling thriller writers at work
today. In Skin, she picks up the trail of Ritual's 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 near the
railway tracks just outside of Bristol one hot May morning,
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 some connection
to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded
quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a
shadowy predator, someone--or something--that can disappear
into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Could it have to do with the shadowy creature who narrowly
escaped Caffery's grasp on his last case? Or is something
more sinister at work? Working alongside Caffery is police diver Flea Marley, whose
relationship with Caffery seems at times to have a personal
dimension. Flea takes it on herself to pursue her own
investigation and returns again and again to Elf's Grotto,
but then she stumbles upon something far too close to home
for comfort, and no one--not even Caffery--can help her face
it. 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.
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