Pig Island: a taut, tense and terrifying thriller from bestselling author Mo Hayder
May 2009 · Random House
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Fans of Stephen King, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter will devour this warped and brutally bloodthirsty thriller from bestselling and prize-winning author Mo Hayder. Guaranteed to mess with your mind, you'll be on the edge of your seat from start to finish...
'Mo Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers, and Pig Island surpasses anything she has written before. She's the bravest writer I know' -- Karin Slaughter
'The goriest thriller writer this side of the pond' -- Mirror
'No matter how much you might despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, she is brilliant at making you read on' -- Daily Telegraph
'Engrossing and a definite page turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Keeps you gripped' -- ***** Reader review
'Awesome writing' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping from the start' -- ***** Reader review
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SEE EVIL
Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew.
HEAR EVIL
Why have the islanders been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader? And why will no one discuss the strange creature seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?
READ EVIL
In PIG ISLAND, Mo Hayder dares you to face your fears head on and to look at what lurks beneath the surface of everyday normality. Because people are perfectly capable of doing unspeakable things to each other...
'Mo Hayder has a profound ability to shock and surprise her readers, and Pig Island surpasses anything she has written before. She's the bravest writer I know' -- Karin Slaughter
'The goriest thriller writer this side of the pond' -- Mirror
'No matter how much you might despise yourself for getting sucked into such places, she is brilliant at making you read on' -- Daily Telegraph
'Engrossing and a definite page turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Keeps you gripped' -- ***** Reader review
'Awesome writing' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping from the start' -- ***** Reader review
***********************************************************************************
SEE EVIL
Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But what he sees when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island forces him to question everything he thought he knew.
HEAR EVIL
Why have the islanders been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader? And why will no one discuss the strange creature seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?
READ EVIL
In PIG ISLAND, Mo Hayder dares you to face your fears head on and to look at what lurks beneath the surface of everyday normality. Because people are perfectly capable of doing unspeakable things to each other...
Ratings and reviews
3.1
10 reviews
brangwen singh
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August 18, 2021
absolute garbage. mo hayder comes off as nothing short of a woman brimming with internalised misogyny, and the entire narrative is stilted and patchy. maybe if the book were longer it could've been better, things could've been properly resolved, but i'd rather not drag out the absolute prison sentence that was pig island. don't bother reading it, seriously. maybe her other works are better but this one isn't worth your time.
shaun barrow
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September 21, 2014
This writer is excellent read The Devil of Nanking and the Jack Caffery books and you will see, but this is terrible. The story starts off really well but never gets going, it is fractured, missing huge chunks of story line, and the ending is extremely dull. Read her other works she really is brilliant, please don't judge her on this dud, everybody has off days.
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A Google user
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June 1, 2012
This was a very good thriller with lots of twists and turns. I liked the ways the characters interacted and I definitely did not expect the ending.
About the author
Mo Hayder has written some of the most terrifying crime thrillers you will ever read. Her first novel, Birdman, was hailed as a 'first-class shocker' by the Guardian and her follow-up, The Treatment was voted by the Times one of 'the top ten most scary thrillers ever written'. In 2012 Gone won the prestigious Edgars Best Novel award.
Mo left school at 15 and has worked as a barmaid, security guard, English teacher, and even a hostess in a Tokyo club. She has an MA in film making from the American University in Washington DC and an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University. She now lives in England's West Country and is a full-time writer.
For more information on Mo Hayder and her books, see her website at www.mohayder.net
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