Mo Hayder

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Mo Hayder (born January 1, 1962 in Essex as Clare Dunkel ; † July 27, 2021 ) was a British author of crime novels and thrillers.

Life

Hayder left Essex at the age of 15 to work in bars and pubs in London for a few years . After her marriage, she moved to Japan , where she worked as a hostess and English teacher, worked in a nightclub in Tokyo and wrote articles for an English newspaper. After traveling large parts of Asia , she graduated from the American University in Washington DC with an MA in film. She then completed a second degree at Bath Spa University , where she completed an MA in creative writing.

Mo Hayder lived as a freelance writer in Bath with her daughter Lotte-Genevieve and her husband Bob Randall, a former sergeant in the Avon & Somerset Police Underwater Search Unit .

She was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in December 2020 . According to her publisher Century, "she fought valiantly, but the disease was advancing at an alarming rate"; She died of complications from the disease in July 2021 at the age of 59.

Themes and motifs

Mo Hayder dealt in all of her novels with the border areas of human experience in connection with cruelty and violence : rape , child abuse , ritual mutilation up to cruel historical excesses and genocide . For example in Tokyo , which reports on the Nanking massacre of 1937, among other things . Cruelty appears as the other side of a final hurdle, the crossing of which - often with the help of drugs - leads to dehumanization , with Hayder also making hints (especially in Die Sekt und Ritualmord ) about mutations and biological human-animal interfaces. Embedded in crime stories with police investigators - the Detective Inspector Jack Caffery in several novels, for example - the excessive proves to be an essential part of society.

Many of the central characters in her novels suffer from family conflicts or allegations about mistakes that led to the death of a relative or friend. Caffery, for example, never got over the loss of his little brother and his alleged abuse and murder by a neighbor, and he constantly suffers from guilty charges. The simultaneous need for revenge and release from guilt forms the central motif of many of the actions of her characters.

Stylistically, she worked with means of classical realism - meticulously researched background material and detailed biographies of all characters - but interspersed the stories with horror and shock effects.

factories

Jack Caffery series

  1. 1999 Birdman
  2. 2001 The Treatment
  3. 2008 ritual
  4. 2009 skin
  5. 2010 Gone
  6. 2013 Poppet
  7. 2014 Wolf , Bantam Press

Stand-alone novels

  • 2004: Tokyo - US title: The Devil of Nanking
  • 2006: Pig Island
  • 2011: Hanging Hill

Audiobooks (excerpt)

Film adaptations

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mo Hayder dies after a short, serious illness , boersenblatt.net, published and accessed on July 29, 2021
  2. ^ Mo Hayder. In: "Lovely books" - "Author". Retrieved April 12, 2016 .
  3. ^ Mo Hayder. In: "moayder.net" - "The official online resource for information and news regarding Mo Hayder and her works." August 27, 2013, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on October 4, 2013 (English): "Mo lives in Bath with her daughter Lotte-Genevieve."
  4. ↑ 'Extraordinary' crime writer Mo Hayder dies of motor neurone disease | The Bookseller. Retrieved July 29, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Hayder, Mon.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunkel, Clare (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION British author of crime novels and thrillers
BIRTH DATE January 1, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Essex , England
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2021