Gone (Jack Caffery Book 5)

In this Edgar Award–winning thriller from the "maestro of the sinister" and author of Birdman (New York Daily News), Detective Jack Caffery hunts a twisted carjacker. The new case Caffery faces appears to be a routine carjacking until he realizes the sickening truth: the thief was not after the car, but the eleven-year-old girl in the back seat. Disturbingly, she is not the only young girl who has been taken.

Meanwhile, police diver Sgt. Flea Marley is pursuing her own theory of the case, and what she finds in an abandoned, half-submerged tunnel could put her in grave danger. The carjacker remains one step ahead of the Major Crime Investigation Unit, and as the chances for the victims' survival grow slimmer, Caffery and Marley race to fit the pieces together.

In this acclaimed series set first in London, and now in Bristol, England, "Hayder, again, proves expert at ratcheting up the tension" (The Independent). "It's a tribute to Hayder's powers as a suspense writer that she completely turns the over-familiar premise of this novel inside out and upside down," says The Washington Post. "Compelling . . . First-rate mystery that takes full advantage of the wintry, moonlit West Country and the unusual skills of its lady diver," according to Kirkus Reviews.

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