Longtime mystery-reader favorite Mo Hayder recently won the prestigious Edgar Award for her gripping Jack Caffery novel Gone. Today’s Free Fridays selection, Birdman, is the first book in Hayder's impressive detective series.
Hayder brings panache to the serial killer detective thriller—pitting a haunted, unflappable London detective, Jack Caffery, against a sui generis serial killer known as the Birdman. When five women’s ritualistically-murdered bodies are discovered within steps of each other, Caffery immediately knows that this will be the case of a lifetime. But most disturbing is the fact that no one seems to be looking for the victims—they don’t fit any missing persons reports.
How is the Birdman choosing these nameless victims? And what must Caffery do to put an end to his unprecedented reign of terror?
Free Fridays Recommends
Each week, we ask our featured author to recommend a book or author that you may want to check out. Since authors are such passionate readers themselves, we thought you might like to find out what they love to read, too! Here’s what Mo recommends:
Hannibal Lecter is sunk so deep in our collective psyche it’s easy to forget there was ever a world without him. Easy, likewise, to think of Red Dragon as just Lecter’s introduction to the world and little more than a clever thriller. Yet this is far far greater than its subject matter and by rights should be read as a piece of classic literature. By all means enjoy the chills, thrills and twists if you’re a dedicated thriller fan, but if you’re a highbrow lit fan don’t be put off by its reputation. Try it. Look past the subject matter and revel in Harris’ style which is top notch.
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