Mo Hayder





Mo Hayder

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born
in Essex, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1962

gender
female

website

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About this author

Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. She worked as a barmaid, security guard, film-maker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She has an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.

Mo lives in Bath with her daughter Lotte-Genevieve.

Series:
* Jack Caffery


Average rating: 3.78 · 16,743 ratings · 2,049 reviews · 11 distinct works · Similar authors
Birdman
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 3,750 ratings — published 1999 — 45 editions
The Treatment: Jack Caffery 2
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 2,163 ratings — published 2001 — 46 editions
Gone
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,093 ratings — published 2010 — 34 editions
The Devil of Nanking
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 2,411 ratings — published 2004 — 51 editions
Ritual
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 1,646 ratings — published 2008 — 31 editions
Pig Island
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 1,871 ratings — published 2006 — 27 editions
Skin: Jack Caffery 4
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,345 ratings — published 2009 — 24 editions
Hanging Hill
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 2010 — 23 editions
Poppet
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions
Mo Hayder 2-Book Bundle: Bi...
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012
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“In most crime novels the violent act, usually the murder, is the engine. Take that away and there is little left to drive the story along. So I do get a little cross with authors who aren’t precise about the violence they’re using to create tension because I feel they’re being dishonest with their readers. If people don’t like the blood and violence in my books, fine, they can always close the cover and put it aside and maybe read a romance instead. – Mo Hayder”
Mo Hayder

“I noticed that in Tokyo people didn’t smell. It was funny. I couldn’t smell them, and they didn’t say very much: the trains were packed but it was quite silent, like being jammed into a carriage with a thousand shop-window mannequins.”
Mo Hayder, Tokio

“Só porque o Turner usa aquele estilo manhoso depois das seis da tarde. Lollapalooza julga que é porreiro andar descalça e eu tenho uma cadela labrador no meu escritório, isso não significa que pode baixar os seus padrões.”
Mo Hayder, Gone

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