Mo Hayder

[Alchemist]

Just finished Wolf by Mo Hayder and once again am completely freaked out by the story. I like/dislike The Walking Man and he just makes me think about things I rather wouldn't. I mean, the way he applied his life to searching.

However, I remember reading Tokyo and having to put the book out of my eyeline because it was terrifying me. I still read the full book.

She is a right scarey woman and I look forward/tremble at her next book.

oh I like val mcdermid. I saw that Stuart Macbride has a new book out if anyone is a fan of his stuff?

I liked Pig Island!

Re imagining someone sat at their desk thinking up the plots...I remember seeing Minette Walters' home on some programme. It was all tasteful and cosy and she looked like a primary school headteacher - not sure what I was expecting but not that from the woman who put really unsettling, unshakeable images into my head.

I've read both Pig Island and Wolf and loved them both.

You need to try the treatment by mo hayder. Another fab book. This and bird man were excellent but I couldn't get into pig island or Tokyo.

I've read all of hers. I love the Jack Caffrey and walking man books. They're so brilliantly disturbing.
Always get excited when I hear she has a new book coming out.
I got Poppet the Christmas before last and I remember lying in bed alone reading it and getting completely spooked by it. Brilliant.

Love mo hayder. Stuart Macbride is good, Katy Reichs, Linda Fairstein, Patricia Cornwall, Jeffrey deaver, patrick kellermsn.

Pig Island freaked the shit out of me, so dark and twisted and the images...shudder. Tokyo was also very haunting

the Jack series are a bit easier to stomach, and do mellow over time

but I dont think I could read Pig Island again

I hated "Birdman". I live horror films and books but absolutely despised that one. The fact that she describes the violent sexual torture of a kidnapped woman and implies that the woman is enjoying it/finding it a turn-on is totally abhorrent imo. I don't know how anyone can say they "love" her writing and I despise the fact that anyone who would describe in detail how a woman is abducted,tortured, raped but somewhere deep down enjoys this can cash in on such tripe.
Sorry.