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  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552163514
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $32.99

Finders Keepers




Prepare to be gripped and chilled, with the sensational new novel from this award-winning crime writer

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP

'A remarkable achievement' Independent

'One of the leading names in crime fiction.' Stylist Magazine

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The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel:

You don't love him

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen.

There are no explanations, no ransom demands...and no hope.

Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he is to find them. But there are some who would say that Jonas is the last man to entrust with this job...

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Readers love Finders Keepers:

'Taught, tense and unputdownable' *****
'An incredible page turner' *****
'Carefully crafted, intricately plotted and a joy to read' *****

  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780552163514
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Belinda Bauer

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 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.

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Praise for Finders Keepers

She's a thriller queen... The woman most likely to lead the fightback against the Scandinavian crime-wave

Sunday Times (Culture)

The most disturbing new talent around

Val McDermid

Bauer takes astonishing risks but - like a brilliant ski-jumper - arcs down to the perfect landing

Independent

One of the leading names in crime fiction

Stylist Magazine

Bauer is not occupied by writing a "crime story" - although there is a crime at the heart of it - she is more interested in writing a novel

Karin Fossum

Compelling... Bauer blends a psychological crime story with a darkly humorous narrative... I can't wait for the next one!

Bookseller (Booksellers' Choice)

Belinda Bauer's third book represents a remarkable achievement: almost a return to the good old Victorian triple-decker novel of suspense, but created with a deftness that allows each book to stand alone.

Independent

Surprise, of course, is the most potent aspect of suspense. And Belinda Bauer knows exactly how to manipulate that element, right until the very end. What's more, she's shown, not just how to keep surprise bubbling explosively away, but to do it with extraordinary dexterity, maturity and feeling

HENRY SUTTON, Daily Mirror

Belinda Bauer hit the big time with the excellent Blacklands and continues to explore her theme of West Country cruelty and corruption, balancing the procedural and psychological aspects of crime. Once again she nails the petty grievances, prejudices and loyalties of village life, and shows how some law enforcers operate at the outer edge of competence

Financial Times

Bauer has established a reputation for plunging her characters into unimaginable gore. Her third novel easily matches her previous efforts, exposing village bobby Jonas Holly...to events unprecedented in British crime fiction. The British countryside has never appeared so alien or so macabre

Sunday Times

Finders Keepers has an enjoyably creepy premise... But it's the book's humour that really shines. Bauer reveals her Gold Dagger-winning writing credentials in her neat skewering of everyday pomposities and her wry asides

Observer