Praise for Snap : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 "With her deeply quirky take, Belinda Bauer is totally unlike contemporaries, and all her crime novels have a very distinct identity. Readers never know what to expect with each new novel, except that it will be highly accomplished." -- Financial Times (UK) "The children steal the show in Belinda Bauer's unnerving suspense novel." --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times "Bauer deftly interweaves a West Country cold-case murder, a teenage master burglar, some ill-assorted coppers and a pregnant wife, knowing exactly when the turn the dial to humor, pathos or something darker. Intelligent entertainment that keeps you guessing." -- Sunday Times Crime Club (UK) "The best crime novel I've read in a very long time." --Val McDermid, author of Insidious Intent "[A] spine-chilling, tension-packed gripper." -- Woman & Home (UK) "Bauer secures her place as a star in the British psychological-suspense firmament with this tightly written tale .

Readers who miss Ruth Rendell are sure to become fast Bauer fans." -- Booklist (starred review) "How in the world did Belinda Bauer create this 14-year-old Robin Hood of a cat burglar who stole my heart? I absolutely loved this utterly satisfying read. My 'gotta know' knotted with overwhelming sympathy for the victimized and Snap gripped me to the last page." --Randy Susan Meyers, bestselling author of The Widow of Wall Street "Snap is the best kind of crime novel--it gives you chills, it makes you think, and it touches your heart. I loved it!" --Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes "Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . A cracking read." --Clare Mackintosh, author of I See You "Is there a current writer in the genre who can be guaranteed never to repeat themselves--and who comes up with an original premise for each new book? . It is the highly individual Belinda Bauer.

Snap, her latest novel, continues this pleasing trajectory . There are echoes of earlier novels here: Julian Gloag's Our Mother's House and Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden , but Bauer (as ever) is very much her own woman, and produces something that exerts a considerable grip on the reader." -- Crime Time (UK).