Pig Island - Mo Hayder

Pig Island Mo Hayder (2006) 'The most terrifying thriller you'll read all year' So sayeth Karin Slaughter on the book cover....well, I have gone off Karin Slaughter, but a decent enough recommendation for me to purchase said book, along wit two others for a fiver in the cheapy bookstore in Barnsley. What's it all about Alfie? Okay, we have a hard drinking (of course) minor journalist ('Oaksey') who specialises in uncovering and exposing hoaxes; religious and paranormal hoaxes especially. Some years before the setting of this book he exposed one 'Malachi Dove' who was peddling his own brand of 'healing'. Subsequently, Mr ...  Read the complete review

After reading mixed reviews of this and TOKYO (still on my to-be-read pile) recently, and these being the only two of her titles I hadn't yet investigated, I decided it was about time I picked these novels up. All I can say in advance is that PIG ISLAND was far from what I had expected..... Like a cross between THE WICKER MAN and James Herbert's HAUNTED, the novel tells the story of Joe Oakes; a free-lance journalist who specializes in exposing supernatural or religious hoaxes. Malachi Dove, a figure Joe has investigated once before a long time ago, has set up a religious community off the scottish coast on what has become known over the centuries ...  Read the complete review