In her latest page-turner, the author of "Skin" and "Ritual" delivers a thrilling and horrifying story that follows the investigation of a brillian...
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Feb 07, 2012
Tony
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GONE. (2010). Mo Hayder. ****.
This is the first of Ms. Hayder’s books I’ve read, and I was impressed. She writes a good thriller/police procedural with almost pitch-perfect pacing. I admit that I identified the killer early on, since the author left you almost no alternatives when spinning out her narrative, but that was OK. The story follows detective Jack Caffery and policewoman Flea Marley on their investigation of a carjacker who manages to lead them on a mery chase. What makes More...
This is the first of Ms. Hayder’s books I’ve read, and I was impressed. She writes a good thriller/police procedural with almost pitch-perfect pacing. I admit that I identified the killer early on, since the author left you almost no alternatives when spinning out her narrative, but that was OK. The story follows detective Jack Caffery and policewoman Flea Marley on their investigation of a carjacker who manages to lead them on a mery chase. What makes More...
Nov 26, 2011
Trev
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What is it about crime writers that they just do not seem to be able to keep me the reader entertained for the complete read??? I have read all Mo Hayder's books and even enjoyed the stand alone's ie Pig Island...but here in this read we have a real dilemma..:(( The first 300 pages is enjoyable and the plot/storyline is a little different...and our two heroes Caffery and Flea are once again on the case. I particularly enjoy "The Walking Man" which in essence is a "sounding board"
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Jun 08, 2011
Saxton B. Little
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Yesterday, I was almost finished with Gone, you know at the point where everything is coming to a head and wrapping up. I was so bummed that I had to go to work. Now, I’m really a good employee, rarely sick and hardly ever take time off, but boy was I tempted to call in, stay home and finish this edge of your seat thriller. Reason won out and I convinced myself that when I got home at nine, I could finish Gone and that anticipation would just make it better. I suppose I could have brought it to
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May 29, 2011
Teresa
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I get audio books from the the library to help pass the time on the daily commute. When I find myself sitting in the car in the driveway 15 minutes after arriving home because I am totally caught up in the story and need to know what happens next then I know I have picked a good story. When I borrowed this audiobook I didn't realise it was part of a series but that didn't matter the story works as a stand alone book, although I now want to go and get all the other books in the series.
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Feb 08, 2011
Jerome
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I recently reviewed The Devil of Nanking, by Mo Hayder, which I loved. Gone is a bit different, it is part of a series featuring Jack Caffery, a murder detective; however it is great as a standalone book as well. I really liked it. Hayder is a great writer of thrillers. She keeps you on edge all the way, and you honestly don't know who's done it until the very end. Her books are scary. In Gone, a car is stolen with a girl sitting in the back. What initially looks like a car jacking turns out to
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Jul 17, 2010
Nicola
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Reason for Reading: Mo Hayder ... new book ... nothing more to say.
This is an all-nighter police procedural that has Jack Caffery on the case of a supposed carjacker who takes a car with a girl in the back seat. The girl is not found and the realization is made that he didn't want the car but the girl. Then it happens again. Another car, another girl, this time much younger. With statistics showing that child abductors kill their victims sooner than later, the team is on a race against More...
This is an all-nighter police procedural that has Jack Caffery on the case of a supposed carjacker who takes a car with a girl in the back seat. The girl is not found and the realization is made that he didn't want the car but the girl. Then it happens again. Another car, another girl, this time much younger. With statistics showing that child abductors kill their victims sooner than later, the team is on a race against More...
Dec 04, 2010
Miles
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Mo Hayder has been writing for ten years and it shows. Her latest book “Gone”, her eighth and fifth to feature Bristol Detective Inspector Jack Caffrey, is a rollercoaster of a whodunit. Frightening at times the narrative exudes a thrilling quality that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final pages.
Set in the West Country Jack Caffrey, lead detective in the MCIU, (Major Crime Investigation Unit) is called in to investigate a seemingly random carjacking. However it soon b More...
Set in the West Country Jack Caffrey, lead detective in the MCIU, (Major Crime Investigation Unit) is called in to investigate a seemingly random carjacking. However it soon b More...
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Feb 10, 2012
S. J.
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One Friday evening, close to Christmas, when my son was a few months old, I pushed his buggy back to the car park on the edge of town where I’d parked hours earlier. We were completely alone, no one in sight, no residential houses, just empty office blocks, fields and a churchyard. It struck me, in that moment, how utterly vulnerable women with young children are. Had I been attacked, I would have been helpless, unable to run and leave my son behind, incapable of fighting back and risking him co
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Jan 30, 2011
Nikki-ann
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A woman has been attacked and her car taken by force, and on the back seat was an eleven-year-old girl. She’s still missing. Murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught mother and he knows that as time goes on it gets less and less likely the child will be found alive.
However, before long the car jacker sends them a letter, a disgusting letter, and Caffrey believes he’s going to take another car and another child. It becomes clear that he won’t stop until he’s cau More...
However, before long the car jacker sends them a letter, a disgusting letter, and Caffrey believes he’s going to take another car and another child. It becomes clear that he won’t stop until he’s cau More...
Jun 08, 2011
Carol
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Yesterday, I was almost finished with Gone, you know at the point where everything is coming to a head and wrapping up. I was so bummed that I had to go to work. Now, I’m really a good employee, rarely sick and hardly ever take time off, but boy was I tempted to call in, stay home and finish this edge of your seat thriller. Reason won out and I convinced myself that when I got home at nine, I could finish Gone and that anticipation would just make it better. I suppose I could have brought it to
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Nov 18, 2011
Paula
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Quando vi este novo livro de Mo Hayder, e depois de já ter lido "Pele" não pensei nem duas vezes na hora de o escolher como próxima leitura.
Quem conhece esta autora, ou os casos policiais do inspector Jack Caffery e da sargento Flea Marley sabe, de antemão, que ficará envolvido no enredo do princípio ao fim.
Abordando os crimes de sequestro e car-jacking, o livro é iniciado com o desaparecimento de Martha, uma criança raptada por um misterioso homem escondido atrás de uma More...
Quem conhece esta autora, ou os casos policiais do inspector Jack Caffery e da sargento Flea Marley sabe, de antemão, que ficará envolvido no enredo do princípio ao fim.
Abordando os crimes de sequestro e car-jacking, o livro é iniciado com o desaparecimento de Martha, uma criança raptada por um misterioso homem escondido atrás de uma More...
Mar 13, 2011
Melody
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Gone is the fifth instalment of Mo Hayder's Jack Caffery series. If you'd follow this series, you'd know that DI Jack Caffery of Bristol's Major Crime Investigation Unit and Phoebe "Flea" Marley of the Underwater Search Unit are the protagonists of this series.
Anyway, Jack Caffery is once again called upon to solve a case involving child kidnapping. When the story opens, Jack and the readers are given the impression that it was a car-jacking case, but as the story picks up More...
Anyway, Jack Caffery is once again called upon to solve a case involving child kidnapping. When the story opens, Jack and the readers are given the impression that it was a car-jacking case, but as the story picks up More...
Apr 06, 2011
Bookmarks Magazine
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After seven novels (Pig Island [2006] and The Devil of Nanking [2010], in addition to the Walking Man books), Mo Hayder continues to set herself apart in the crowded crime genre by defying readers’ expectations and by offering edgy plots, complex characters, and sharp prose. Seemingly immune to the ebbs and flows typical of crime series as they explore the darker sides of their main characters, the Walking Man books continue to surprise, and Jack Caffery has become one of the most complex protag
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Aug 22, 2011
Elizabeth
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Brilliant, sharp, with wonderfully drawn characters. I LOVE UK thrillers--they take something that is sensationalistic and run with it, but then twist and turn and shape it until you're left saying "oh. OH!" I also love that the main character, Jack Caffery (who has apparently been in other books by Hayder), didn't feel like a "And this is the hero and here is his backstory and now he will save the day by doing a, b, and then c"--I had no idea he was in other books by Hayder
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Feb 26, 2011
Kath
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Gone, by Mo Hayder, is the fifth book in a series featuring Bristol DI Jack Cafferty, and the first of hers I read. Despite four books of back story, I felt no lack or loss for jumping in at the wrong end, as Hayder gave just enough relevant information to offer a bit of depth and context without flogging a reader with past events.
This book is a harrowing journey down a swift river, and there were several times I got off the ride only to jump back on as soon as I could. Hayder's vi More...
This book is a harrowing journey down a swift river, and there were several times I got off the ride only to jump back on as soon as I could. Hayder's vi More...
Sep 15, 2011
At first, I liked this. I thought the characters were interesting and the plot was quite an interesting and slightly different idea. However, by about half way through I knew who the culprit was and began to piece everything together. In many ways this spoiled the second half of the book as it was evident there was still supposed to be tension at this point, but this was gone for me. For this reason, I didn't fully enjoy this novel.
Saying that, I think the character of Jack Caffrey is More...
Saying that, I think the character of Jack Caffrey is More...
Sep 02, 2010
S.D.
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Another in the Jack Caffery series set in England. This time someone is carjacking vehicles with kids in them. Two girls are missing and the villain is always three steps ahead of the police. Caffery is at a loss as to how the families are connected. Meanwhile Sgt. Flea Marley of the underwater rescue team has a hunch about where the girls might be. She has chaos in her personal life as, in the opening, she is checking to make sure the woman her brother had killed in a hit and run in a prev
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Jan 25, 2011
Barbra
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This Mo Hayder book is a fast-paced, top-notch thriller. This is one of the best Jack Caffrey novels but I did love tham all. Mo Hayder is just brilliant at what she writes.
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Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking.
What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven year old girl. Who is still missing.
Before long the jacker starts More...
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Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking.
What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven year old girl. Who is still missing.
Before long the jacker starts More...
Jul 07, 2011
Felicia
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I may have found an author to compete with the Scandavian writers. Mo Hayder (F), from Great Britain, has written a series of books with Jack Caffery as the Chief Detective. Jack is not the depressed or angst driven soul like Wallender, but he does have his issues. The times in this book when he cares for Myrtle, a displaced colllie, bring out a little Jesse Stone quality in the Chief.
But, don't be mislead.......this book is terrifying, haunted, and hard to put down. I can't wait to re More...
But, don't be mislead.......this book is terrifying, haunted, and hard to put down. I can't wait to re More...
Feb 10, 2011
Anderson's Bookshops
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Joe says, This is the third (following Ritual and Skin) in the Cafferty-Marley series and - to my mind - the best. Hayder keeps getting better, leaving the supernatural references behind and turning up the tension dial. Who is carjacking and kidnapping young girls? How does the villian stay steps ahead of the police? What is his motive? These questions drive the narrative, which layers the investigation with the complex personal lives of Cafferty and Marley, as well as the parents of the victims
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Aug 25, 2010
Ellen
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This is one of the books with the recurring protagonists Jack Cafferty and Flea Marley. It was interesting to see how the author advanced their stories in the context of a complicated mystery. Cafferty is both repelled by and attracted to Marley while she has no idea what he's upset about. One question that needs to be answered is whether or not he is going to discover the truth about her. Then there is the antagonist who is seemingly too clever to be caught. Trying to figure out his motives is
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Jul 01, 2011
???!!!
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Won't really give a 3 star, more of a 3 and 1/2. Hayder gives very descriptive emotions about mothers loosing their child, most of all about how a couple trying to survive their loss in their own way. I don't really get a clear picture of the main detective though. He didn't do much and when he did you don't know how he got to that conclusion. As for that girl (forgot her name) I don't really know why she is in the story either except being stuck. What was that at the very end of the book?
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Oct 05, 2010
Joe
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This is the third (following "Ritual" and "Skin") in the Cafferty-Marley series and -- to my mind -- the best. Hayder keeps getting better, leaving the supernatural references behind and turning up the tension dial. Who is carjacking and kidnapping young girls? How does the villian stay steps ahead of the police? What is his motive? These questions drive the narrative, which layers the investigation with the complex personal lives of Cafferty and Marley, as well as the p
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Dec 28, 2011
Catherine
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This was the last installment in Hayder's Walking Man series- like the others I very much enjoyed Hayder's writing and character details. Despite the fact that I was able to figure out who the suspect was I still thought this was a great read. It continues with the lives of Flea Marley and Jack Caffrey- as in the last book they almost intertwine due to work related incidents but don't connect personally despite the emotional connection they feel for each other- this seemed realistic and I look f
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Apr 11, 2011
Karen
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total page turner...satisfyingly quick paced and lots of twists but I let myself figure out who might have done it about 1/2 way through, instead of just going with it (that's the thing about mystery novels, when you know there are still 150 pages left, it can't possible be 'wrapping up' with the first idea of who the perpetrator is. A couple of things I thought implausible, btw --why wouldn't an 11 year old girl jump from the vehicle (he stopped to insert the parking ticket at exit) or at least
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Feb 12, 2012
Orest
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When a seemingly routine carjacking is revealed to be a more complex crime, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery must race to save a girl's life.
This British police procedural is a gripping read. Ms. Hayder is particularly adept at mood and setting. A palpable sense of danger and foreboding permeates her latest novel. Sgt. Phoebe "Flea" Marley is an original, welcome, multi-dimensional character. Some readers who prefer economical prose may be daunted by the absence of white More...
This British police procedural is a gripping read. Ms. Hayder is particularly adept at mood and setting. A palpable sense of danger and foreboding permeates her latest novel. Sgt. Phoebe "Flea" Marley is an original, welcome, multi-dimensional character. Some readers who prefer economical prose may be daunted by the absence of white More...
Aug 13, 2011
Grace
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lots of twists and suspense!
Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffery becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he chosing his targets? More...
Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffery arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing. Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffery becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child. Who is the car-jacker? How is he chosing his targets? More...
Nov 14, 2011
Lance Greenfield
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Not too many people will argue with me when I say that Mo Hayder writes gripping thrillers. This, in my opinion, is her best so far, of the ones that I've read, anyway.
Before I go any further, please heed my warning that you really should read Skin before you pick up Gone. There are references in Gone, which will spoil your reading of Skin if you read them the wrong way round.
This story begins with a car-jacking. The perpetrator appears to have overlooked the child who wa More...
Before I go any further, please heed my warning that you really should read Skin before you pick up Gone. There are references in Gone, which will spoil your reading of Skin if you read them the wrong way round.
This story begins with a car-jacking. The perpetrator appears to have overlooked the child who wa More...
Jun 27, 2011
Smq
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A very good novel if I have to use plain english. The reason I say that is because it was typical of those English-writers where the details and descriptions were to heavy for me poor reader, for whom english isn't a native language, lol.
Having said that, it was my first read of Mo Hayder and it really was gripping, tense and fast. I really liked the male protagonist, Detective Jack Caffery. Eventhough he might have said at the beginning that nothing would have happened to the girls, More...
Having said that, it was my first read of Mo Hayder and it really was gripping, tense and fast. I really liked the male protagonist, Detective Jack Caffery. Eventhough he might have said at the beginning that nothing would have happened to the girls, More...
Jun 10, 2011
Jacquelynn
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Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for a missing girl who was in the car when it was carjacked. He thinks the girl will be returned when the carjacker realizes the girl is in the car, but this doesn't happen. This is how the book starts and has you riveted until you finish it. There are many twists and turns through out the book. If you follow the clues, you will determine who the carjacker is before Jack does. The ending is satisfying, but not what I expected.
