The Beautiful Dead

A masterclass in storytelling. Crime novels don't get much better than this. I loved it

C L Taylor, author of THE ACCIDENT

The Beautiful Dead will keep you up all night.

Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR

Belinda Bauer used to be a screenwriter and it shows in the fast pace and mounting tension that makes The Beautiful Dead a book you’ll read in one go with all the lights blazing after you’ve made sure every door is locked.

Sarra Manning

Oh my, this is a clever, chilling, and penetrating read...I simply couldn’t put it down. With sharply spiked claws that hook into your mind and don't let go, The Beautiful Dead is a heart pounding and captivating read.

Liz Robinson, Lovereading

Belinda Bauer is the connoisseur of crime novels.

ES Best, Evening Standard

Incredible. Just incredible. Belinda Bauer is a genius.

Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO

No one writes books like Belinda Bauer, who just gets better and better.

Sarah Hilary

...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

Over half a dozen novels, Belinda Bauer has staked a claim to the gruesome, spectacular and bizarre... trademark ingenuity.

Sunday Times

...this all too believable thriller is fast-paced, taut and super scary

The Sun on Sunday’s Fabulous Magazine

Excellent tension.

The Times

excellent and disturbing crimer

Sunday Sport

...polished and breathtakingly tense, this novel of obsession and murder takes a firm grip from the start

Woman & Home

...all the texture and depth of a classic crime thriller... This increasingly taut thriller is page-clawing material.

Stuart Winter, Daily Express

I have read serial killer-yarns that are more frightening but few as entertaining or, in its low-key way, as moving.

Telegraph

...this wintery chiller is a fantastic take on the serial killer thriller.

Sunday Mirror

Belinda Bauer is probably Britain's most original crime writer.

Crime Scene

...a book you'll read in one go after making sure every door is locked.

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