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- "Mo Hayder, who writes dark, perfect thrillers . . . now spins a shivery tale about a cult on the west coast of Scotland, where the weather nourishes bleak menace.
- About the Author: Mo Hayder won the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone and the 2011 Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work.
- 352 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers
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About the Book
Debunking supernatural hoaxes for a living, journalist Joe Oakes finds his beliefs coming into question on a visit to a remote Scottish island, where a secretive religious community lives apart from a violent band of isolationists who harbor a murderous strange creature.Book Synopsis
"Mo Hayder, who writes dark, perfect thrillers . . . now spins a shivery tale about a cult on the west coast of Scotland, where the weather nourishes bleak menace."--Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News "Another astonishing mutation of the crime thriller . . . [Pig Island] masterfully exposes not only the horror but also the human frailty at the story's core."--Anna Mundow, The Boston Globe From Edgar Award winner and internationally bestselling author Mo Hayder, Pig Island is a riveting, disturbing thriller of religious fanatics, hoax debunkers, and the dark side of belief. Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes, but when he visits a secretive religious cult on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. While investigating a strange apparition caught briefly on film wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island, so deformed it can hardly be human, Oakes crosses a border of electrical fencing, toxin-filled oil drums, and pigs' skulls to infiltrate the territory of the group's isolated founder, Malachi Dove. The violent consequences of Oakes's transgression are so catastrophic that it forces him to question the nature of evil and to face a terrible reality: was Dove responsible for one of the bloodiest crimes Scotland has seen in years? And, worse, have his actions set into motion a killing machine that will stop at nothing? "A novel that taps into the current fascination with all things supernatural and questions our assumptions about a number of subjects, from faith healing to cultish religious groups and society's definition of evil."--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Mo Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers, and Pig Island surpasses anything she has written before. She's the bravest writer I know."--Karin Slaughter, author of Cop TownReview Quotes
"Pig
Island mashes up the horror and detective fiction genres to create a
fascinating and often unsettling book ... For a gruesome twist on the
traditional mystery, this book will definitely deliver."-Stephen Lovely, Murder
& Mayhem
About the Author
Mo Hayder won the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone and the 2011 Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work. She is also the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The Devil of Nanking, Ritual, Skin, Hanging Hill, Poppet, and Wolf. She lives in England.Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 352
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Thrillers
Publisher: Grove Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Mo Hayder
Language: English
Street Date: March 10, 2015
TCIN: 85056881
UPC: 9780802123404
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-9045
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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