Bone skull ”, the last and incredible masterpiece of Mo Hayder, who disappeared prematurely in 2021

Note : 4/5 – Bone skull ”, last incredible

Mo Hayder has chosen a typical Cotswolds village in the southwest of England. Meanwhile, Welcome to Eastombrit, a village like any other. Consequently, Where Alex Mullins returned to settle after a visit to the London police. Consequently, This little young woman with a brown mop in battle. Moreover, with a face constelled with freckles again lives in the sumptuous modernist glass and metal villa of her mother. Consequently, A huge house that dominates the city, with its garden on the edge of a park. Meanwhile, Not far from a lake from which she came out unscathed. Meanwhile, apart from an ugly injury in hand, after the tragic coach accident which left seven dead and three seriously injured, disabled for life, among the fourteen passengers.

His childhood friend, Arram Black, was present that day. Therefore, He also got out of it. For example, works, bone skull ”, last incredible like her, in the police, as a computer trainer in the medico-legal section of Gloucester. In Eastombrit, no one has really forgotten the trauma of the accident. An urban legend, moreover, is the more spirits. A creature nicknamed “bone skull” would make regular appearances around. Maryam. the mother of Arram, often has the impression of crossing the ghost of this prostitute murdered by a man who would have returned several times to violate his corpse….

The reader taken at the guts

Mo Hayder excels in installing a strange. disturbing atmosphere, preferring the cooking slowly to permanent thunderclaps. By taking the time to dig his characters, to show their cracks and their flaws. Like those of Alex. incapable of forgetting what she went through the night of the accident, which rationalizes everything, claims that ghosts do not exist and be a “a priori a healthy spirit”. Or those of Maryam. a woman whom bone skull ”, last incredible everyone judges anchored but who has the impression of having remained an eternal gallor and heavy farm …

With Mo Hayder, the expression “taking guts” really makes sense. The tension rises in each chapter of “bone skull” whose COTSWOLDS landscape is light years from the Cosy-Crimes of. MC Beaton. In afterword. his sister Karin Slaugher pays him a beautiful tribute recalling, strongly, that Mo Hayder “was not an author of polars – she was a short author”. An immense. in line with a Simenon or a Ruth Rendell, which has tirelessly worked to probe the darkness of the world, to show what humans are capable of enduring or being suffered. His final tour de force grabs, mistreats and nails on the spot in his last lines. “Bone skull” is one of those books that we will offer. that we will keep, that we will not forget and that we will one bone skull ”, last incredible day connect.

Mo Hayder, “bone skull”, translated from English by Anne-Sylvie Homassel, Les Presses de la Cité, 427 pages, 22, 90 €.