Birdman
- Published
- 1 January 2000
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9780440236160
- Type
- novel
About this book
Birdman introduced Mo Hayder's Jack Caffery series in 2000, running 448 pages. It establishes Caffery as a Bristol Major Crimes detective carrying a private wound -- his brother Ewan's unsolved childhood disappearance -- and sets the series' forensically graphic, unflinching tone.
Key facts about Birdman
Birdman is a novel by Mo Hayder. Readers have had it since 2000. It runs to 448 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Birdman. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780440236160 to find the main one.
Birdman is book 1 of 7 in the Jack Caffery series. The series has 7 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
That series sits on our crime thriller shelf. Meanwhile, Bonehead is the latest published Mo Hayder book on file, from 9 May 2024.
About Mo Hayder
Mo Hayder, born Clare Damaris Bastin (1962-2021), was a British crime novelist known for pushing the genre toward genuinely disturbing extremes of violence and psychological horror. See every Mo Hayder book in order.
Its place in Jack Caffery
Birdman is book 1 in the Jack Caffery series. It is followed by The Treatment. See the full Jack Caffery reading order.
Detective Inspector Jack Caffery works Bristol's Major Crimes Investigation Unit, but the series opener Birdman (1999/2000) makes clear from its first pages that Mo Hayder's crime fiction sits at the extreme end of the genre: forensically graphic, willing to follow serial killers, torturers, and traffickers into territory most British crime writers avoid, and unflinching about the psychological cost to the investigators who chase them. Caffery himself carries a private wound throughout the series -- his brother…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780440236160