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"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to th...

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Main Author: Hayder, Mo
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2013.
Series:Jack Caffery ; 6
Subjects:
Missing persons > Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals > Fiction.
Caffery, Jack (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Suspense fiction. > England
Mystery fiction. > England
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Summary:"The Maude is outside. It wants to come in. It wants to sit on your chest. The mentally ill patients in Beechway High Secure Unit are highly suggestible. A hallucination can spread like a virus. When unexplained power cuts lead to a series of horrifying incidents, fear spreads from the inmates to the staff. Amidst the growing hysteria, AJ, a senior psychiatric nurse, is desperate to protect his charges. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is looking for the corpse of a missing woman. He knows all too well how it feels to fail to find a loved one's body. When AJ seeks Caffery's help in investigating the trouble at Beechway, each man must face a bitter truth in his own life. Before staring pure evil in the eye" -- from author's web page.
Item Description:"A Jack Caffery thriller" -- dust jacket.
Originally publshed: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2013.
Physical Description:378 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9780802121073 (hc.) :
0802121071 (hc.)
Author Notes:Mo Hayder is the pen name for Clare Dunkel, a British Crime novelist. She was born, in 1962. After leaving school at 15, she worked as a barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in a Tokyo club, and taught English as a foreign language in Asia. Here first novel was Birdman (1999). The books that followed were The Treatment (2001), Tokyo (2004) also published in 2010 as The Devil in Nanking, Pigs Island (2006), Ritual (2008), Skin (2009), Hanging Hill (2011), Gone (2010) won the Edgar Award, Poppet (2013), and Wolf (2014) which is being adapted for the BBC. In 2011, she won the Crime Writers' Association Daggar in the Library award for an outstanding body of work. Clare Dunkel died from motor neurone disease on July 27, 2021. She was 59.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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