The Treatment

One of the most frightening books I’ve ever read… Hayder’s gory insights into the dark side are compelling * GUARDIAN *Chilling… the book is surprisingly hard to put down. The plot develops with satisfying unpredictability; the characters are compellingly drawn… its final twist a bravura savagery * DAILY TELEGRAPH *Bleak, powerful… The Treatment is cleverly plotted and Caffery is a believable creation * OBSERVER *Mo Hayder’s debut, Birdman, was deservedly an unqualified success… and Hayder has lost none of her descriptive expertise along the way * TIME OUT *There is no better example of a contemporary masterpiece than Mo Hayder’s The Treatment. Whether she’s exploring social issues such as homelessness and child abuse or just scaring the bejeezus out of you, Hayder spins a tale that feels like a razor slicing apart your soul. The plotting is extremely disciplined, the sort of structure to which all authors should aspire, and the story is a searing dark tale that makes you bolt up in bed during the middle of the night, wondering if that sound you heard was the cat, or Death dragging its sickle across the floor – Karin Slaughter * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *

Mo Hayder left school at fifteen. She worked as a barmaid, security guard, filmmaker, hostess in a Tokyo club, educational administrator and teacher of English as a foreign language in Asia. She had an MA in film from The American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University UK.

Mo was the Sunday Times bestselling author of ten stunning crime novels, including the Jack Caffery series. Her fifth crime novel Ritual was nominated for the Barry Award for Best Crime 2009 and voted Best Book of 2008 by Publisher’s Weekly. She won the CWA Dagger in the Library in 2011. Gone, her seventh novel, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award and her novel Wolf was nominated for Best Novel in the 2015 Edgar Awards, and is currently being adapted for the BBC.

Set primarily in an alternate universe, her most recent novel, The Book of Sand, is the first in a series published posthumously under the author name THEO CLARE.

Mo Hayder was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in December 2020 and passed away in July 2021. She leaves behind a husband and a daughter, a powerful legacy of books, and an incredible number of people who loved and admired her.

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