The Treatment

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Mo Hayder: The Treatment (2008, Random House Publishing Group)

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Sprache: English

Am 8. August 2008 von Random House Publishing Group veröffentlicht.

ISBN:
978-0-307-49211-1
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OCLC-Nummer:
496321970

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The suspense is relentless in The Treatment, an emotional powerhouse of a thriller that brings back Jack Caffery, the detective from Mo Hayder's acclaimed novel Birdman. A masterful blend of psychological insight and forensic detail, Hayder's latest thriller is as chilling as it is heartbreaking, a gritty, gripping tour de force of suspense.It is a perfect summer day in London's up-market Brockwell Park. Yet, behind the elegant facade of one house, a man and his wife have been taken prisoner in their own home and their young son has disappeared. But the final horror of their terrifying ordeal is still to be revealed.Called in to investigate, Jack Caffery tries desperately to make sense of the meager clues found at the crime scene. But the echoes of a devastating disappearance in his own past make it impossible for him to view the crime objectively. And as Jack digs deeper, as the …

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hat The Treatment von Mo Hayder besprochen (Jack Caffery, #2)

Excellent, but very very intense

Jack Caffery, brilliant detective whose past includes his brother disappearing and likely killed by a pedophile next door, is put on a case where a child is missing and increasingly likely to be dead after a pedophile ties a family up and does unspeakable things to the family. In fact, there may even be overlap between the current case and the long ago case of his brother.

The story is intense and fucked up. The families of the child victims are somewhat unlikable, and Hayder writes too many characters to make the reader think they may also be pedophiles. So while it's a well-written police procedural, I am not going to keep reading the series. Child abuse is just too infused into every aspect of the story and I'd rather read something not so depraved.