Wolf

Edgar Award winner and internationally best-selling author Mo Hayder has made her name with nightmarishly dark, impeccably-plotted thrillers that hook readers from the first page and won’t let them go, netting numerous awards and attracting legions of fans from around the globe. With her latest novel, Wolf, the frighteningly talented ?queen of hardcore in high heels” (Le Point Magazine, France) ratchets up the terror yet another notch, with a bone-chilling home invasion novel.

When a vagrant?the Walking Man?finds a dog wandering alone with the words ?HELP US” written on its collar, he’s sure it’s a desperate plea from someone in trouble and calls on Detective Inspector Jack Caffery to investigate. Caffery is reluctant to get involved?until the Walking Man promises new information regarding the childhood abduction of Caffery’s brother in exchange for the detective’s help tracking down the dog’s owners. Caffery has no idea who or what he is searching for, but one thing he is sure of: it's a race against time.

Meanwhile, the Anchor-Ferrers, a wealthy local family, are fighting for their lives in their remote home ten miles away. Two men have tricked their way into the house and are holding the family for ransom. Yet as the captors’ demands become increasingly bizarre and humiliating, it becomes clear that this is more than a random crime?it’s a personal vendetta.

With all of the taut suspense and terrifying twists that have kept her fans on the edge of their seats for years, Wolf cements Hayder’s place at the top of the crime-writing field.

Mo Hayder has worked as a filmmaker, Tokyo nightclub hostess, and English as a second language teacher. She has won the Edgar Award for Best Novel for Gone and the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library award for outstanding body of work. She is also the author of Birdman, The Treatment, The Devil of Nanking, Pig Island, Ritual, Skin, Hanging Hill, and Poppet. She lives in England.