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Ritual

Jack Caffery seriesbook 3 of 7Next:Skin(2009) →

Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marleycloses her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that there's no body attached is disturbing enough. Yet more disturbing is the discovery, a day later, of the matching hand. Both have been recently amputated, and the indications are that the victim was still alive when they were removed.

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DI Jack Cafferyhas been newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol. He and Flea soon establish that the hands belong to a boy who has recently disappeared.

Their search for him - and for his abductor - lead them into the darkest recesses of Bristol's underworld, where drug addiction is rife, where street-kids sell themselves for a hit, and where an ancient evil lurks; an evil that feeds off the blood - and flesh - of others ...

Audience
adult
Length
long · 415 pages

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