The Devil of Nanking - Mo Hayder

Tokyo - Mo Hayder

period of history he lived through, and which he desperately wants to forget. To start with, he turns her away and insists that he has nothing to tell her. Mo Hayder’s third novel marks an apparent change in direction for a writer previously associated with serial killer thrillers in a present day London setting. I haven’t read Birdman or The Treatment as the descriptions of them just didn’t appeal to me. Then I heard Mo Hayder speak at the Harrogate Crime Festival in 2003 about her research for this novel, and became really curious to read it. This was reinforced when I heard her speak again this year. Hayder uses two first person narrators and a number of plot ...

Tokyo - Mo Hayder

period of history he lived through, and which he desperately wants to forget. To start with, he turns her away and insists that he has nothing to tell her. Mo Hayder’s third novel marks an apparent change in direction for a writer previously associated with serial killer thrillers in a present day London setting. I haven’t read Birdman or The Treatment as the descriptions of them just didn’t appeal to me. Then I heard Mo Hayder speak at the Harrogate Crime Festival in 2003 about her research for this novel, and became really curious to read it. This was reinforced when I heard her speak again this year. Hayder uses two first person narrators and a number of plot ...

Birdman - Mo Hayder

I'm going to try to give as little about the plot away as I can :) I read this book in July whilst on holiday, by chance it was the most enticing read (in English) at the local "supermercado". I never expected to enjoy it so much. The great element this story contains is the suspense at telling moments in the plot, the twists and turns that the reader is taken on which cannot be foreseen. This ensures that the book is not left sitting for long until it is finished. The author goes into stomach wrenching detail at times, so if you are sensitive to gorey details this book is one to be missed. The main character is well developed and can be related to ...

Birdman - Mo Hayder

I'm going to try to give as little about the plot away as I can :) I read this book in July whilst on holiday, by chance it was the most enticing read (in English) at the local "supermercado". I never expected to enjoy it so much. The great element this story contains is the suspense at telling moments in the plot, the twists and turns that the reader is taken on which cannot be foreseen. This ensures that the book is not left sitting for long until it is finished. The author goes into stomach wrenching detail at times, so if you are sensitive to gorey details this book is one to be missed. The main character is well developed and can be related to ...

Birdman - Mo Hayder

that gathers pace as it progresses towards climax and is usually aimed at pointing out how screwed up modern society can make people. This is Mo Hayder's debut novel and it is a good one, Birdman fits into the latter of the above, a thriller with pace, a clever plot line and scores of characters well and truly screwed up. Now, I am an avid reader of both these types of books and Birdman is the best thriller that I have read since Silence of the Lambs. The plot of what I can reveal is set in South-East London (oh yes, everyone is at it now, South-East London is hip to set your novels and films in). Five female bodies are uncovered near the Dome (yes more ...

Birdman - Mo Hayder

that gathers pace as it progresses towards climax and is usually aimed at pointing out how screwed up modern society can make people. This is Mo Hayder's debut novel and it is a good one, Birdman fits into the latter of the above, a thriller with pace, a clever plot line and scores of characters well and truly screwed up. Now, I am an avid reader of both these types of books and Birdman is the best thriller that I have read since Silence of the Lambs. The plot of what I can reveal is set in South-East London (oh yes, everyone is at it now, South-East London is hip to set your novels and films in). Five female bodies are uncovered near the Dome (yes more ...