Jack Caffery is a Mystery series by Mo Hayder.
Detective Inspector Jack Caffery encounters various twisted cases over the course of his career, each time having little time to solve them.
There were 7 Novels as of Hayder's passing.
In 2023, Wolf was adapted into a 6 episode BBC miniseries.
Novels
Tropes:
- Never One Murder: The primary antagonists are often serial killers and serial rapists, as opposed to onetime perpetrators.
- Race Against the Clock: Caffrey often finds himself struggling within a time-crunch to solve cases before the perpetrators strike again.
- Serial Killer: Multiple suspects kill multiple people across a period of time, including a killer who sews birds into the corpses of dead women.
- Serial Rapist: Multiple suspects are sexual predators with more than one victim, including a prolific child pornographer.
- Would Hurt a Child: Multiple suspects have no qualms towards subjecting children to injury, abuse, or death. Notably, Jack's brother supposedly died at the hands of a prolific child predator.
