As an anticipated end to one of his crime novels, the disease prematurely took a Clare Dunkel and with it her alter ego Mo hayder. Under this signature crime novels start with large doses of a disturbing, even strident suspense. Stories of urban underworlds from London inherited from Jack the Ripper. Intense and unnerving plots like the best of the psychological challenges of a thriller-like mess. Essential in his bibliography is the growing prominence of his protagonist Jack Caffery, whose echoes still reverberate among those who are most fans of the current noir, more devoted to the criminal in form and substance.
In her facet as a writer, Mo Hayder seemed to rescue a very vivid set design, as if transferred from her own vital evolution. And it is that every author ends up soaking in experiences necessarily to end up writing credible stories no matter how close to the abyss they walk. Then come the forms and the style, more typical of the part of learning in the reading baggage of the author on duty.
Top 3 recommended novels by Mo Hayder
The Birdman case
A novel heir to that first story in which the writer discovered herself. A good plot that brought her that recognition as a writer without qualms when it came to complementing the criminal knot and the investigation with that gore point that points to the murderer with that ruthless point that worries the reader from the outset.
Greenwich, south east London. Inspector Jack Caffery - young, compulsive, impassive - goes to the scene of one of the most gruesome crimes he has ever seen. Five prostitutes have been ritualistically murdered and dumped in a field near the Millennium Dome. Subsequent autopsies reveal the existence of a gruesome signature that links all the victims.
Caffery soon realizes that he is on the trail of one of the most dangerous criminal figures: a serial killer. Annoyed by the distrust of him within the police forces and haunted by the memory of a very close death in his childhood, Caffery uses all the weapons that forensic science offers him to hunt down the murderer. He knows that it is only a matter of time before that sadistic criminal acts again ...
The treatment
With so much crime fiction to the extreme of darkness, it seems impossible that we can be surprised with a new story about evil and its ability to penetrate the human imagination with extreme crudeness. Terror always seems like something that underlies crime novels, but here it seems to pass like a minimal water table about to explode under our feet.
Mo Hayder brings Detective Jack Caffery back, this time with the investigation into the terrible disappearance of a child. In Brockwell Park, a quiet residential area in south London, the police find a couple brutally attacked and locked in their home for three days, although they still have something worse to discover: the eight-year-old son has disappeared.
When Detective Jack Caffery arrives and analyzes the few clues he has, he finds eerie similarities to dark events from his own experience: his brother's disappearance when he was nine years old, possibly at the hands of a local pedophile, and each time it turns out. more difficult to maintain objectivity in the case. As the investigation and forensic analysis progress, Caffery sees more connections between past and present, and then his nightmares become real ...
The ritual
In this gritty psychological thriller, the third installment in Inspector Caffery's series, Mo Hayder moves effortlessly between the supernatural and the scientific, with a dizzying pace that leaves the reader with no respite until the last page.
On a Tuesday in May, in the murky waters of Bristol Harbor, Officer Phoebe Marley, from the police diving team, finds a human hand submerged more than six feet underwater. The fact that the limb is not attached to any body is disturbing in itself; but even more so is the discovery of the other hand, the next day and in a different place. Both appear to have been amputated to the victim recently, and everything indicates that it was done while he was still alive.
Inspector Jack Caffery, who is in charge of the case, soon concludes that the hands belong to a young junkie who has disappeared in recent weeks. As Caffery focuses on a drug-related line of work, Marley discovers a possible connection to muti, traditional African witchcraft that makes ritual use of severed limbs. Their effort to clarify the facts will take the pair of investigators to the most sordid corners of the city, where a diabolical threat lurks ... Mo Hayder moves with ease between the supernatural and the scientific, with a dizzying pace that does not give the reader respite until the last page.
Hello!! I was looking for recommendations from female crime novelists, in the style of Mo Hayder, if there is blood and they are "disgusting" better. Could you recommend a black novel writer of this style?
Well maybe Val McDermid will get enough blood to flow for a high-flying criminal noir ...
Hello!! I love Mo Hayder! Could you recommend other women writers who write crime / police novels in their style? Patricia Cornwell, Asa Larsson and Camilla Lackberg were recommended to me and I was extremely bored, they are more of a rose novel. I was looking for a writer who writes black novels like Mo Hayder, raw, that makes the hair stand on end.
Completely agree with your opinion.