The Beautiful Dead

Incredible. Just incredible. Belinda Bauer is a genius. * Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO *…all the texture and depth of a classic crime thriller… This increasingly taut thriller is page-clawing material. * Stuart Winter, Daily Express *…this wintery chiller is a fantastic take on the serial killer thriller. * Sunday Mirror *The Beautiful Dead will keep you up all night. * Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR *Excellent tension. * The Times *…a book you’ll read in one go after making sure every door is locked. * Red *Over half a dozen novels, Belinda Bauer has staked a claim to the gruesome, spectacular and bizarre… trademark ingenuity. * Sunday Times *A masterclass in storytelling. Crime novels don’t get much better than this. I loved it * C L Taylor, author of THE ACCIDENT *Belinda Bauer is the connoisseur of crime novels. * ES Best, Evening Standard *…the formidably talented Belinda Bauer. From the award-winning Blacklands onwards, she has shown a plucky willingness to take the crime novel into completely unexpected territory, and a sure-fire grasp of how to unsettle the reader. Bauer aficionados need not hesitate; she’s on typically scabrous form here. – Barry Forshaw * FT *

Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother. For her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. She went on to win the CWA Dagger in the Library for her body of work. Her fourth novel, Rubbernecker, was voted Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her eighth novel, Snap, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and voted Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages.