By Mo Hayder
ISBN-10: 080212092X
ISBN-13: 9780802120922
“Hayder . . . outdoes herself, flip-flopping the supernatural and the explainable like a cycle of poison and antidote that would stay with the reader lengthy after the ultimate page.”—Booklist (starred review)
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, 9 ft underwater, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved hands round a human hand. No physique is hooked up. much more stressful is the invention, an afternoon later, of the matching hand—recently amputated, and got rid of whereas the sufferer was once nonetheless alive. Detective Jack Caffery of the key Crime research Unit in Bristol is named in to enquire, and he and Marley quickly identify that the fingers belong to a tender guy who has lately disappeared. Their look for him—and for his abductor—lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol’s underworld, the place street-kids promote themselves for a success, and the place one in all Africa’s most annoying rituals could be making an unforeseen visual appeal. the 1st novel to add the investigative workforce of Flea and Jack, Ritual is a masterpiece of suspense that would continue readers guessing till the final breath.
“Hayder . . . strikes to a different point during this spellbinder. With characters so complicated, so interesting that they can populate a dozen novels, she sends readers right into a demimonde of formality magic, desperation, guilt, and loss of life, all exquisitely composed. . . . Ritual is outstanding, dense, frightening; certainly the best crime novels of [the year].”—The Globe and Mail
“Ritual strikes from the eerie and hazardous to the downright ferocious as gradually as an oncoming teach. . . . this is often one you'll hate to place down and hate to complete. yet you're going to like the ride.”—Jack Ketchum, writer of The Lost and The woman subsequent Door
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I didn’t imagine it,” said Tess. “Something with fingers caught hold of my ankle. ” Tess’s tense expression relaxed and lightened into a smile. She was fighting this. “I’m sorry, Mr. Clarke. I won’t be a spoilsport. And, after all, what did anybody expect? That’s what we’re here for, isn’t it? ” “But—” “There was something there, Mr. Clarke. ” Two doors opened into the hall, one at the left and one at the right. We looked toward the door at the left, because a light had been switched on there.
This is Mrs. ” smiled Gwyneth. “I’ve been so wanting to meet you, Miss Fraser. I’m your chaperon, you know. You must be tired after that drive. ” “Thanks,” said Tess. ” The room at the left of the hall, it appeared, was the drawing-room. It was very long and spacious, with two of the big windows opening on the front driveway. Evidently as a concession to modernity, it had been furnished with rich but subdued heaviness: fitted carpet, deep chairs upholstered in wine-colored velvet, fat-bowled Chinese lamps on the side tables.
Clarke. But I could be much more keen about a week end in the country if it weren’t such foul weather. Just look at those windows! ” 45 Clarke stared at her. ” “Certainly not. That house has been vacant for upwards of seventeen years. It will take more than a month to put it in anything like a decent state of repair. No, no, no. I was merely, like a crafty host, planning ahead. ” He drew out a pocket diary and leafed through the pages. “What would you say to a Whitsuntide party? Whitsunday, this year, falls on May 17th.
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