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  • Published: 31 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9781446465929
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

Rubbernecker




The award-winning crime novel from the bestselling author of SNAP.

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP
*WINNER! Crime Novel of the Year*

'Contains one of the most startling plots in contemporary crime fiction' Sunday Times

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Patrick has uncovered a crime that the experts were too close to see . . .

Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger's Syndrome doesn't come without its challenges. And that's before he is faced with solving a possible murder.

Because the body Patrick is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. And now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery - while he dissects his own evidence . . .


'Bauer's great gift is her ability to surprise the reader: in the sense of making you jump out of your chair, certainly, but also in that she makes you think a bit differently about the world' Daily Telegraph

'Breathtaking. I read this and wished I'd written it' Val McDermid

'This could be the most astonishing whodunnit you are ever likely to read' Red Magazine online

Readers love Rubbernecker:

'A compelling, intelligent thriller' *****
'A totally brilliant story . . . Gripping and heart-felt' *****
'Original and absorbing - a great read' *****

  • Published: 31 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9781446465929
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 432

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 Rubbernecker

Obvious echoes of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . . . darker and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose, it deserves to do equally well

Daily Express

Breathtaking. I read this and wished I’d written it

Val McDermid

One of the most startling plots in contemporary crime fiction

Sunday Times

Bauer's great gift is her ability to surprise the reader... [and] she makes you think a bit differently about the world.

Daily Telegraph

Taking the psychological thriller into new territory

Independent

This could be the most astonishing whodunnit you are ever likely to read

Red Magazine online

Rubbernecker isn’t your average crime novel: it's far better than that

We Love This Book

Bauer has once again succeeded in creating an innovative path into detection

The Times

The exciting result reads like a collaboration between Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) and Barbara Vine

Sunday Telegraph

A brilliant description of autism from the inside

Literary Review

Obvious echoes of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . . . and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose, it deserves to do equally well

Sunday Express

Bauer's great gift is her ability to surprise the reader: in the sense of making you jump out of your chair, certainly, but also in that she makes you think a bit differently about the world

Daily Telegraph

The exciting result reads like a collaboration between Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) and Barbara Vine.

Sunday Telegraph

Bauer has once again succeeded in creating an innovative path into detection.

The Times

[Rubbernecker] contains one of the most startling plots in contemporary crime fiction

Sunday Times Culture Magazine

A fearlessly twisty whodunit

Metro

The true heir to the great Ruth Rendell

Mail on Sunday

Our most inventive crime writer

Metro

Belinda Bauer is one of the best British crime writers out there right now

Simon Kernick

Belinda Bauer's thrillers are always compelling, always original, always brilliant. I will rush to read anything she writes

Mark Billingham

Bold and original, Rubbernecker draws you into unexpected psychological territory with its sophisticated, fast-paced story. A thought-provoking page-turner you won't be able to put down.

KOETHI ZAN, author of The Never List