Character guide · 7 books · 2010 to 2021 · Often set in the fictional Shipcott, Exmoor

Belinda Bauer

Crime and mystery Thriller and suspensePolice procedural Rural crime Psychological suspense

Belinda Bauer writes darkly funny, unusual crime novels. Blacklands follows a twelve-year-old boy on Exmoor who writes to a serial killer in prison to find his uncle's body; Snap, longlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a boy whose mother vanished on a motorway.

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