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Mo Hayder wrote two of my favorite crime novels of recent years — Birdman and The Treatment, both of which married the British police procedural to something so dark and gruesome and impossibly heartbreaking that I honestly imagine it impossible not to be affected by their impact. Since then, I've read several of her other novels, which have succeeded to varying levels... and Ritual, I fear, may be the least effective one yet. It treads ground familiar to those who've read Birdman or The Treatment, but without the shattering emotional resonance that allowed both of those to transcend formula and attain the status of something truly horrifying and memorable. Which leaves us with... a middling British police procedural, which you keep hope will rise above its station but never quite does.