WRITER

Mo Hayder

1962 - 2021

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Beatrice Clare Dunkel (born Clare Damaris Bastin; pen names, Mo Hayder and Theo Clare; 2 January 1962 – 27 July 2021) was a British author. Earlier in her life she worked as an actress and model under the name Candy Davis and appeared as Miss Belfridge in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? She went on to write novels as Mo Hayder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mo Hayder has received more than 723,329 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Mo Hayder is the 6,566th most popular writer (down from 5,762nd in 2019), the 5,885th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,078th in 2019) and the 675th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.09

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Skin
Marlins, Police divers, Fiction
2009
Birdman
Fiction, Crimes against, Police
Greenwich, south-east London. The Met's crack murder squad is called out by CID detectives to a grim discovery. Five bodies, all young women, are ritualistically murdered and dumped. Post mortems reveal a most dangerous sexual serial killer on the loose.
1999
Pig Island
Fiction, suspense, Journalists, fiction, Scotland, fiction
Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born sceptic, he believes that everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island, everything he thought he knew is overturned. Questions mount: why has the community been accused of Satanism? What happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? Most important, why will no-one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the beaches of Pig Island.
2006
The Treatment
Murder, Police, Fiction
Also featuring DI Jack Caffery, Mo Hayder's terrifying second novel now reissued in B-format.A quiet residential street in south London.A husband and wife are discovered, imprisoned in their own home. Badly dehydrated, they've been bound and beaten. He is close to death. But worse is to come: their young son is missing.When Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called in to investigate, the similarities with events in his own past make it impossible for him to view this new crime dispassionately. And as he digs deeper - as he attempts to hold his own life together in the face of ever more disturbing revelations about both his past and his present - the real nightmare begins ...
2001
Ritual
Fiction, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, general
1998
Hanging hill
Sisters, Divorced mothers, Fiction
What if you found yourself divorced and penniless? With no skills and a teenage daughter to support? What if the only way to survive was to do things you never thought possible? These are questions Sally has never really thought about before. Married to a successful business man, shes always been a bit of a dreamer. Until now. When Sally's daughter gets into difficulties, Sally finds she needs cash - lots of it - fast. With no one to help her, she is forced into a criminal world of extreme pornography and illegal drugs; a world in which teenage girls can go missing ...
2011

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mo Hayder ranks 6,566 out of 7,302. Before her are William Wycherley, Stanley Kunitz, Cressida Cowell, Michael Pollan, Irving Finkel, and Ali Sardar Jafri. After her are Gregory S. Paul, R. S. Thomas, Robert Henryson, John Stossel, Judith Hermann, and Phil Donahue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Mo Hayder ranks 587. Before her are Joan Carreras i Goicoechea, John Ngugi, Santiago Ostolaza, Abdulla Shahid, Amy Chua, and Josef Hader. After her are Kevin Lima, Alvin Robertson, Emile Roemer, Horst Bulau, James LeGros, and Sergey Rodionov. Among people deceased in 2021, Mo Hayder ranks 651. Before her are Antonio de la Torre, Vladimir Vysotsky, Shashikala, Aleksandr Timoshinin, Richard Lerner, and Paul Westphal. After her are Aleksandr Klepikov, Tommy Troelsen, Keith Greene, Sally Ann Howes, Johnny Isakson, and Antony Sher.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mo Hayder ranks 5,885 out of 8,785. Before her are Bobby Collins (1931), John Scott Russell (1808), Irving Finkel (1951), Glen Johnson (1984), Kathleen Ollerenshaw (1912), and John Lloyd (1954). After her are Bobby Lennox (1943), R. S. Thomas (1913), Daley Thompson (1958), Ruth Wilson (1982), Graham Whitehead (1922), and Jimmy Dickinson (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Mo Hayder ranks 675. Before her are Katharine Gun (1974), Dinah Craik (1826), Pippa Middleton (1983), William Wycherley (1640), Cressida Cowell (1966), and Irving Finkel (1951). After her are R. S. Thomas (1913), Brian Stableford (1948), Grant Morrison (1960), Colley Cibber (1671), Sophie Hannah (1971), and Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth (1914).

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