THE TREATMENT by Mo Hayder

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

"Midsummer: Brockwell Park, a pleasant residential area of south London. A husband and wife are discovered bound and imprisoned in their own home. They are badly dehydrated, have been beaten, and the husband is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing." When DI Jack Caffery of the Met's murder squad, AMIP, is called in to investigate, the similarities to events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime with the necessary detachment. And as Jack digs deeper, as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both the past and the present, the real nightmare begins.

RATING:

Mo Hayder's second book and sequel to BIRDMAN featuring Jack Caffery -- dark, if not darker, than the first -- grim, creepy yet compelling (although I felt a tad too much emphasis was placed on Caffery's relationship with girlfriend Rebecca). Hayder is a true talent and easily can hold her own among the UK's best.