PICK ONE BOOK FROM YOUR INVENTORY that you thought was great but is going unnoticed.

Tell us about it !

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*** TAKEN ***

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Gerald and Hyacinth had the kind of marriage others envied. She was a beautiful artist. He was a brilliant plastic surgeon. Theirs was a comfortable, happy home with two wonderful children. Then whispers of betrayal tainted Hy's perfect marriage, and in one terrible night she commits and act she will regret for the rest of her life. An act that gives Gerald the ultimate weapon: blackmail. The price of his silence is uncontested custody of their two children. When her own mother wants to know why she won't fight for custody, Hy can give no answers...

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I´ve got one, too. One of those which will stay in my shelf.
Just finished, a page turner and for sure, nothing for sensitive persons.



Mo Hayder - The treatment

Editorial Reviews,Amazon.com:

Penzler Pick, November 2001: When Mo Hayder's first book, Birdman, was published last year, it caused a lot of talk in the industry. Nobody could deny that Hayder was a talented and formidable writer, but her serial killer was so repugnant to many readers that it was felt that only those blessed with the strongest stomachs could endure the entire book. Those who stayed with her ultimately agreed that they were rewarded with a deep and complex story from one of the best young writers around.
In Birdman, Hayder introduced us to her very troubled detective, Jack Caffery, and in The Treatment Caffery is back with very few of his problems solved. Alas, the case he is about to tackle will only make his job and his private life even more difficult. Called to a house which abuts Brockwell Park in South London, he finds Alek and Carmel Peach, prisoners in their own home and suffering from beatings and dehydration. Worse, their young son, 9- year-old Rory, is missing. When the boy is found dead, the trail seems cold and Caffery realizes he not only has another unspeakable murderer on the loose but also one who will tap into Caffery's own history and deepest conflicts.

While Caffery is trying to make sense of what went on at the Peaches' house, another couple and their son also have been imprisoned in their home. Time is running out for all of them, and we cannot help but read on anxiously as Caffery carefully puts the forensic evidence together and uses his knowledge of the darkest parts of the human mind to come up with the solution before it is too late.

While creating one of the most depraved villains in mystery fiction, Hayder packs a punch with an ending that is as shocking as it is inevitable. Beware! This is not for the faint-hearted. --Otto Penzler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly
This sequel to Hayder's 2001 debut Birdman is as raw as a predawn autopsy, and promises to please fans of her beleaguered protagonist DI Jack Caffery and his weary crew of London cops and coroners. The book trades its predecessor's taboo (necrophilia) for pedophilia, with Hayder delving deeper into the nitty-gritty of police work than many of her American counterparts dare. Called in when a young couple are discovered handcuffed and half-dead in their home, Caffery's infamous Area Metropolitan Investigation Team ("The murder squad, you mean?") combs a seedy park in a gentrifying slum looking for the couple's missing eight-year-old son. Caffery leaves no stone unturned, bringing in helicopters and human remains dogs ("You do know that if we find him the dogs might, uh, destroy some evidence, don't you?") and broods over the resemblance of the case to his own brother's childhood disappearance. With the discovery of the boy's mutilated corpse, Caffery and his boss, the affable DCI Danniella Souness, turn South London upside down hunting the sadistic killer. Meanwhile, the author introduces potential suspects in a parallel narrative, their hidden vices described with stomach-churning clarity. Hayder handles procedural detail ("All prisons in London insist on being informed about any helicopter that passes. It keeps them calm"), dialogue ("I'm not a shagging Yank, you know") and volatile subject matter with powerful dexterity, crafting another deliciously chilling thriller. (Dec. 26)Forecast: This was a bestseller in England and should significantly build Hayder's fan base in the U.S.

That is a really good one sleepy, Rella and I both read that one...now we need to get some other people in to look

Did you read the other books, too ?
I am eargerly awaiting "The birdman" and bought a used copy of "The devil of nanking".

Love this thread! Always looking for a good author!

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Originally posted by Sleepy26177:
Did you read the other books, too ?
I am eargerly awaiting "The birdman" and bought a used copy of "The devil of nanking".

I read Birdman as well. I didn't read The Devil of Nanking, known in Europe as Tokyo.

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I didn't read The Devil of Nanking, known in Europe as Tokyo.

I will tell ya !
As soon as I´ve read it (second place in the shelf of unread books) and if it´s good, you´re going to read about it here.

Faithless
By: Karin Slaughter
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Published: Dell, 25 July, 2006

Georgia medical examiner Sara Linton returns in Slaughter's Grant County crime thriller series (Indelible ), and this time she's hot on the trail of a demented killer who buries teenage girls alive. Out in the woods chatting about past infidelities, Sara and ex-husband/lover Jeffrey discover a young girl buried in a grotesque coffin, dead despite a breathing pipe extending to the surface. The victim is soon identified as Abigail Bennett, a member of the Holy Grown soybean farming collective, a group curiously unfazed to learn a daughter was poisoned. Suspicion blooms around Holy Grown's many farmhands, mostly ex-felons on work release, but then centers on the parishioners who congregate at the Church for the Greater Good, a local congregation run by a shifty minister. Another shallow grave, physical violence and another girl's disappearance lead Sara, Jeffrey and assisting detective Lena Adams back to the Bible-thumpers and their unholy dealings. Issues of abortion, domestic abuse and forgiveness afford these recurring female characters three-dimensional humanity, nicely offsetting Slaughter's patented grim forensic detailing. Slaughter's fifth Grant County case offers tough love, suspenseful spadework and life-affirming vigor.
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Faithless is a good one... good choice to PIMP!!!

Six Crooked Highways
by Wayne Johnson

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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Tribal intrigue and government meddling on the Chippewa Red Lake Indian Reservation along the western shores of northern Minnesota's labyrinthine Lake of the Woods propel this atmospheric but cluttered sequel to Johnson's well-received Don't Think Twice. Awakened in the middle of the night by the roar of a motor boat on the lake in front of his popular resort lodge, Paul Two Persons worries that the commotion will disturb the sleep of his wife, Gwen, and their two-year-old daughter. But more is disturbed than sleep when a dead body is found floating.......

Oooooooh, sounds exciting!!!



The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown

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Amazon.com
With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.

A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his granddaughter, noted cryptographer........

Oooooooooh, another exciting one for you!



Hurry folks only one of each available. Both are hardcover copies.

I'm not to good with the picture thing LOL
This book is so good. a tear jerker, but I loved it.

Losing Julia
By Jonathan Hull

In a world torn apart by war; one man would search a lifetime to find what he once lost: a woman named Julia

Patrick Delaney was just a boy when he marched off to war in 1918. But on the stark battlefields of France, amid the horror and the chaos. Patrick forged a bond that would shape the course of his life.

What a great idea. I love Garrett Mattingly's _The Armada_ so much that I've bought, oh, twenty or thirty copies so far just so that I always have a copy to give away. I've been making an effort to become less ignorant of history for a few years now, and this book was a breakthrough for me: it was the first time I ever loved reading a history book.

I just added one of my available three copies to my inventory so that I could join in the pimpin'.