Belinda Bauer, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (221p) ISBN 978-1-4391-4944-7
British author Bauer's solid debut focuses on Steven Lamb, an unhappy 12-year-old boy who lives with his mother, grandmother, and five-year-old brother in Shipcolt, Somerset. Steven's grandmother is still haunted by the disappearance and...
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Belinda Bauer. Simon & Schuster, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-1275-2
Bauer (Blacklands, which was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger) joins such contemporary masters of psychological suspense as Ruth Rendell and Minette Walters with her twisted and tricky second novel, set in the Somerset village of Shipcott. When...
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Belinda Bauer. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2396-1
British author Bauer's highly original mystery boasts two unusual protagonists. The first is Sam Galen, a man in a coma ("I'm asleep and I cannot tell you how hard I try to wake up"). The other is Patrick Fort, who has Asperger's syndrome. Patrick...
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Belinda Bauer. Grove, $14 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2485-2
Det. Chief Insp. John Marvel, the misanthropic policeman in this intricate, surprise-filled crime novel from British author Bauer (Blacklands), can “see the bad in anyone.” Marvel is still obsessed by his failure to solve the case of Edie Evans, a...
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Belinda Bauer. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2533-0
This is one exclusive that Eve Singer, an attractive iWitness News crime reporter, doesn’t want, in this taut thriller from British author Bauer (The Shut Eye). While covering the stabbing of a young woman just feet from throngs of London Christmas...
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Belinda Bauer. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2774-7
The gripping opening of this uneven thriller from Bauer (The Beautiful Dead) finds 11-year-old Jack Bright and his two younger sisters left in a car on a British motorway by their mother, Eileen, after a breakdown one summer day in 1998. Losing...
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Belinda Bauer. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8021-5788-1
Lonely widower Felix Pink, the protagonist of this droll whodunit from British author Bauer (Snap), belongs to a right-to-die group, the Exiteers, whose members assist the terminally ill who are in pain and discomfort, and quietly sit with them when
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