Jack Caffery · Book 3
Ritual
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 556
- ISBN-13
- 9781554681990
- Type
- novel
About this book
A seven-year gap separates The Treatment from Ritual, which appeared in 2008 at 556 pages, the longest book in the series. It moves Caffery from Bristol's murder squad into River Police work, while keeping the extreme body horror that defines Hayder's crime fiction.
Its place in Jack Caffery
Ritual is book 3 in the Jack Caffery series. It follows The Treatment. It is followed by Skin. 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 9781554681990