An Evening with Author Mo Hayder

Meet award winning novelist & crime writer Mo Hayder at Birmingham Library Theatre on Monday 8 February 2010 at 6.30pm (for a 7.00pm start)

Tickets (free) via the Box Office on 0121 303 2323 or onlinewww.birminghamboxoffice.com

MO HAYDER is one of the bestselling and most critically acclaimed of contemporary British crime thriller novelists, admired by her peers and eagerly followed by her readers. She specialises in confronting criminal acts head-on in her writing, fearlessly tackling the darker side of life where many turn away. Mo has taught creative writing and is now a full-time author at the peak of her talents. Mo has written some of the most terrifying crime thrillers published in the last ten years. In 2000 her debut novel Birdman was hailed as "a first-class shocker" by The Guardian, and her follow-up, The Treatment, was voted by The Times recently as "one of the top ten most scary thrillers ever written". Mo Hayder knows how grip the reader from page one, successfully manipulating the imagination. She has been praised for her intense authenticity as a writer, this taken from her research into and association with several UK police forces and on her personal encounters with criminals and prostitutes. (www.mohayder.net)

Mo's new book 'GONE'

In GONE, Hayder's eighth novel, and the fifth to feature her popular murder detective Jack Caffrey, the scene is set in early winter, in the West Country. Caffrey is brought in to interview the victim of a car-jacking. So far, so routine. But this incident is different. This time the car was taken by force, and on the back seat was a passenger, an eleven year old girl. She is still missing. Before long the jacker himself starts to communicate directly with the police, and Caffrey knows this wasn't a one-off. He will strike again - another car with another child on the back seat. Even scarier still is the fact that the jacker seems to be one step ahead of the police, no matter how quickly they pursue him. In a race against time, Caffrey must track and find his criminal, before more innocent victims become another notch on the dashboard...

FREE TICKETS

Birmingham Library and Archive Services are pleased to present another brilliant author event at Birmingham Library Theatre. The Reader Development Team is dedicated to organising and delivering high quality writer to reader events, which add to the reading experience. Tickets to these events are currently free and high in demand. If you decide to book tickets and then find yourself unable to attend, we would be very grateful if could please return your tickets to the Box Office as soon as you are able, so that they can be allocated to other readers. At recent sell out events, we have turned people away, only to find that we had some empty seats on the night. Free tickets are available via the Box Office and for further details, please contact Nikki Bi (nikki.bi@birmingham.gov.uk).