States in March 2005. Pig Island was her fourth best seller, published in April 2006. Pig Island was nominated for both a Barry Award for Best British crime novel, and a CWA dagger. Her fifth book, Ritual was the first in "The Walking Man" series, and was nominated for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award. Skin is the second book in The Walking Man series, and was released in early 2009. Gone, the third book in the series, was released in February 2011. Gone won the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Her novel Hanging Hill was published 2011, Poppet in 2013, and Wolf in 2014. Her novels were controversial when published. Birdman was seen as violent and disturbing. Her second novel, The Treatment tackled themes of paedophilia. The San Francisco Chronicle called the novel a "disturbing journey into the pedophile mind". Hayder also wrote the screenplay for De Behandeling (2014) which was a Belgian film of an adaptation of The Treatment. Shortly before her death, she completed a new novel The Book of Sand, a speculative thriller written under the pseudonym Theo Clare, which will be published in 2022. Personal life In 1985, she married the actor Gary Olsen, later the male lead in 2point4 children. The couple divorced in 1990. Hayder lived in Cheltenham, England with her second husband, Bob Randall, a retired police sergeant whom she married in 2021. She had one daughter. She died on 27 July 2021 from complications of motor neurone disease, aged 59, having been diagnosed the previous December. Bibliography Jack Caffery series Birdman (2000) The Treatment (2001) Ritual (2008) Skin (2009) Gone (2010) Poppet (2013) Wolf (2014) Stand-alone novels Tokyo (2004), also published as The Devil of Nanking (2010) Pig Island (2006) Hanging Hill (2011) Writing as Theo Clare The Book of Sand (2022) The Book of Clouds (2023) Filmography Television Film References External links Mo Hayder at Gregory & Company Authors' Agents 1962 births 2021 deaths People from Essex 21st-century English novelists American University School of Communication alumni Alumni of Bath Spa University English crime fiction writers Edgar Award winners Women mystery writers 21st-century English women writers English women novelists Neurological disease deaths in England Deaths from motor neuron disease 21st-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century English actresses Actresses from London English television actresses English female models Glamour models Page 3 girls