“Artfully constructed . . . Chilling . . . Shocks are in store.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“With her latest, Gone, Mo Hayder takes you to the edge, then pushes you over in a heart-pounding rush of a story that will leave you battered and bruised, and wanting more.”—Chevy Stevens, The New York Times best-selling author of Still Missing

“Mo Hayder’s gritty, intense thriller series featuring detectives Jack Caffery and Flea Marley is a must for anyone who likes breakneck timing and detectives who walk on the dark side.”—Carol Schneck, The Daily News

“It’s a tribute to Hayder’s powers as a suspense writer that she completely turns the over-familiar premise of this novel inside out and upside down. The more pages of Gone that we captivated readers turn, the farther away we get from clichéd thriller conventions.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

“They call her the ‘queen of hardcore in high heels.’ The beautiful and terrifying Mo Hayder, since The Devil of Nanking, has honed her sense of narrative and sculpted her obsession with evil . . . [In Gone,] she delivers a message unsettling to all: the whole world, yes, anyone can be prey.”—Le Point Magazine (France)

“Hayder writes some of the most carefully plotted, gripping and downright scary books in the mystery genre, and Gone continues that tradition in fine form.”—Bruce Tierney, Bookpage

“Gone is the best of Mo Hayder’s series featuring DI Jack Caffery . . . with a finely tuned plot, carefully developed characters and suspense galore.”—The Globe and Mail

“A multilayered story . . . Her characters are fascinating; flawed and weighted with their own past, but dealing with the demands of the current case . . . Gone is a classic tension-filled thriller . . . The final pages bring surprising revelations and the story ends with a shocking bang.”—Leslie Doran, Mystery Scene Magazine

“A complex, fast-paced, well-written mystery with interesting characters fighting personal and external demons.”—Beth Blakesley, Library Journal

“Where she differs from her peers is her almost outlandish imagination. Hayder pushes the boundaries of what’s been said and written before . . . Brilliantly perceptive portrayals of the victims and very clever, sympathetic plotting, not to mention an acute capturing of police procedure—Gone is Mo Hayder’s most compulsive thriller yet.”—Daily Mirror (UK)

“Mo Hayder raises the bar high when it comes to crime fiction and she’s done it again with this clever, stomach-churning, fast-paced, top-notch thriller.”—Sunday Express (UK)

“Hayder, again, proves expert at ratcheting up the tension.”—Irish Independent

“A carjacking goes from bad to horrifying in Hayder’s gripping fifth thriller.”—Publishers Weekly

“Mo Hayder’s specialty, from her bleak and brilliant debut Birdman on, has been a particularly potent blend of terror and horror to create a suspense that not only grips her readers by the scruff of the neck but takes a firm hold on their intestines, too.”—The Times (London)

“A terrific, expertly crafted thriller from British crime writer Mo Hayder . . . While Hayder does a bang-up job larding her page-turning plot with blind alleys and unexpected curves, it is her in-depth character portrayals, especially of the mothers of the missing girls, that give the novel its depth and complexity . . . Part of the enjoyment of reading [Gone] comes in wondering and then admiring how she pulls it all off.”—Debra Ginsberg, Shelf Awareness (online)

“She jolted the often-sedate world of police-procedural fiction with an unabashed readiness to gaze at the Gorgon of human behavior; and detail it while pulling no punches.”—The Independent (UK)

“Her latest thriller serves up a fast-paced storyline that will see you racing through the pages.”—The Edinburgh Evening News (UK)

“A brilliantly plotted mystery that keeps you guessing not only who the villain is, but what exactly he’s after . . . First-rate mystery that takes full advantage of the wintry, moonlit West Country and the unusual skills of its lady diver.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Riveting . . . Hayder keeps the tension high . . . The meticulously crafted plot is heightened by Hayder’s skillful evocation of mood as she summons the specter of a highly intelligent criminal who is taking great satisfaction from every parent’s worst nightmare. A captivating thriller.”—Booklist (starred review)

“Hayder tightens the strings of family anguish and cop angst to the breaking point in an artfully paced thriller.”—Winnipeg Free Press

“Gone, [Hayder’s] latest novel published in America, is one of those books that dares you to put it down once you’ve started reading and then challenges you to forget it once you have finished . . . The only way you can read Gone without having every nerve in your body jumping and screaming is if you are not paying attention . . . Hayder is a storyteller par excellence . . . [who] continues to drop charges into the water until practically the last paragraph. If you have read her previous works, you know what I’m talking about. If you’re new to her craftsmanship, read Gone and be enthralled. Strongly recommended.”—Joe Hartlaub, Bookreporter.com

“Gone is great crime fiction: all is not what it seems, and human frailties inevitably surface no matter how hard we try to hide them.”—Montreal Gazette

“Hayder keeps events, her characters’ emotions, and a whole series of menaces moving so swiftly that many readers may only notice that they’ve had a thoroughly criminal workout at the hands of a ruthlessly competent writer.”—Toronto Sun

“I could not put the book down till its conclusion, breath held a good part of the way there . . . Happily, the final few pages hint of a return of Caffery and Flea, and one can only hope it will be soon.”—Murder by Type