Detective Inspector Jack Caffery mysteries
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1) Birdman
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English
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In his first case as lead investigator with London's crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, south-east London. Brutalized, mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area--all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the post-mortem examination reveals...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
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English
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Now a major motion picture: A boy's abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery.
In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. Savagely battered and severely dehydrated, the worst revelation is yet to come: Their eight-year-old son has been abducted.
When the boy's body is found, forensic evidence reveals disturbing parallels to events in Det. Jack Caffery's own...
3) Ritual
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough-until the discovery of the matching appendage a day later. Both hands have been freshly amputated, and there are indications that the victim was still alive when they were removed. Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol, DI Jack Caffery soon establishes that the hands belong...
4) Skin
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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In her eerie and hair-raising thriller Skin, Mo Hayder trails her 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, 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 a connection to Elf's Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded...
5) Gone
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Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Jack Caffery's new case seems like a routine carjacking until he realizes the sickening truth: The thief wasn't after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the back seat. And she's not the only young girl who's been taken. Meanwhile, police diver Sgt. Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker is always one step ahead of the Major Crime...
6) Poppet
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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When a dangerous mental patient named Isaac, who is linked to a series of unexplained episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, is released in error, Detective Jack Caffery must track him down before he kills again.
7) Wolf
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Pub. Date
2014
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English
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When a vagrant -- the Walking Man -- finds a dog wandering alone with the words "HELP US" written on its collar, he's sure it's a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved -- until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery's brother in exchange for the detective's help tracking down the dog's owners. Caffery has...