Ritual Av Mo Hayder

<p><b><i>Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this dark and disturbing thriller from <u>bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder</u>. Expertly weaving ancient rites with modern forensics, it draws you in and paints a picture so vivid and compelling in the mind, you'll be hooked from page one... </i></b><br><br><b>'Intensely enthralling' - </b><b><i>OBSERVER</i></b><br><b>'Expect plenty of blood, gore and black magic' -- </b><b><i>DAILY MIRROR</i></b><br><b>'A vivid and thorough exploration of the clash between ancient superstition and modern science, with plenty of thrills and chills along the way' - </b><b><i>GUARDIAN</i></b><br><b>'Really can recommend and I'm not one for giving the story away so try it yourself and you won't be disappointed!' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'I couldn't put it down and finished it in a week' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Fantastic and thrilling' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Darkly enthralling, was hooked in' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><br>********************************************************************************************<br>Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver <b>Flea Marley</b> closes her gloved fingers around <b>a human hand</b>. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of <b>the matching hand</b>. <br><br>Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.<br><br> <b>DI Jack Caffery</b> has been newly seconded to <b>the Major Crime Investigation Unit</b> in <b>Bristol</b>. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to <b>a boy</b> who has recently disappeared.<br><br> Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; <b>an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...</b></p>