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Jack Caffery books in order
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Bestselling crime author Mo Hayder was renowned for her Jack Caffery series, penning some of the most terrifying thrillers you’ll ever read…
Featuring the unshockable DI Jack Caffery, the crimes are gruesome, the victims are often brutally murdered and the perpetrators are extremely dangerous. It’s a dark, thrilling series not for the faint-hearted.
Mo Hayder passed away, aged 59, from motor neurone disease in 2021, but her brilliant Jack Caffery books continue to stay close to our hearts as some of the best crime novels ever written.
Jack Caffery books in order: the complete series:
Birdman by Mo Hayder
1. Birdman (1999)
Greenwich, south-east London. Detective Inspector Jack Caffery – young, driven, unshockable – is called to one of the most gruesome crime scenes he has ever seen. Five young women have been ritualistically murdered and dumped on wasteland near the Dome. Subsequent post-mortems reveal a singular, horrific signature linking the victims.
Soon Caffery realises that he is on the trail of that most dangerous offender: a serial killer. Beset by animosity within the police force, haunted by the memory of a very personal death long ago, Caffery employs every weapon forensic science can offer to hunt him down. Because he knows that it is only a matter of time before this sadistic killer strikes again…
Read an extract from Birdman here.
The Treatment by Mo Hayder
2. The Treatment (2001)
A quiet residential street in south London. A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they’ve been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing.
When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately.
And as he digs deeper – as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past and his present – the real nightmare begins.
Ritual by Mo Hayder
3. Ritual (2008)
Just after lunch on a Tuesday in April, nine feet under water, police diver Flea Marley closes 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.
DI Jack Caffery has 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.
Skin by Mo Hayder
4. Skin (2009)
When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning, all indications are that she’s committed suicide. That’s how the police want it too; all neatly squared and tidied away.
But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared.
Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas of her past safely behind her, she’s beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. But then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort – it’s so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again.
And this time, no one – not even Caffery – can help her.
Gone by Mo Hayder
5. Gone (2010)
Night is falling as murder detective Jack Caffrey arrives to interview the distraught victim of a car-jacking. What he hears horrifies him. The car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger. An eleven-year-old girl. Who is still missing.
Before long the jacker starts to communicate with the police. And Caffrey becomes certain that he is planning to take another car. And another child.
Who is the car-jacker? How is he choosing his targets? And – most urgent of all – can Caffrey find the child before it’s too late?
Poppet by Mo Hayder
6. Poppet (2013)
The patients at Beechway High Secure Unit are terrified. Unexplained power cuts have lead to a series of horrifying incidents. And now fear has spread from the inmates to the staff.
DI Jack Caffery is called to investigate, whilst working the most impossible case of his life. Will he be able to stare pure evil in the eye, and survive?
Wolf by Mo Hayder
7. Wolf (2014)
Fourteen years ago two teenage lovers were brutally murdered in a patch of remote woodland. The prime suspect confessed to the crimes and was imprisoned.
Now, one family is still trying to put the memory of the killings behind them. But at their isolated hilltop house the nightmare is about to return.
Check out our recommended books for fans of the BBC adaptation of Wolf.
There you have it – Mo Hayder’s Jack Caffery books in order! How many have you read? Let us know in the comments below…
I’ve read all of these books and they are brilliant
Read every book really enjoyed every book waiting for the next one x
Please write more in this Jack Cafrey
series
All but the last one ,and I am about to put that right.
They are a great set of books read them all , just wish she would write another.