num_pages: 428
description: Nine feet under water police diver Flea Marley closes her gloved fingers around a human hand. The fact that theres no body attached is disturbing enoughuntil the discovery of the matching appendage a day later. Both hands have been freshly amputated and there are indications that the victim was still alive when they were removed. Newly seconded to the Major Crime Investigation Unit in Bristol DI Jack Caffery soon establishes that the hands belong to a young man who has recently disappeared. As Caffery and Marley search for the rest of the victimand for his abductorthey journey into the darkest recesses of Bristols underworld where drug addiction is rife street kids sell themselves for a hit and a disturbing occult ritual may be making an unexpected appearance.
language: English
title: Ritual
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press