The British thriller, defiantly not cozy

Mo Hayder has been called one of Britain's "most adventurous, unpredictable and ambitious writers" (the Observer), and her fourth novel, "Pig Island " (Atlantic Monthly, $24), is another astonishing mutation of the crime thriller. Revolving around a cynical journalist's obsession with a vanished guru-faker whose followers hold out on a remote Scottish island, the novel masterfully exposes not only the ... (Full article: 851 words)

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