Snap

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year (Specsavers National Book Awards) Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' VAL MCDERMIDSNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . .

. On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said.

I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back.

And life as the children know it is changed for ever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother . .

. ___'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . .

. a cracking read.' CLARE MACKINTOSH'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' C.

L. TAYLOR'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' Sunday Mirror'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . .

. razor-sharp observation.' Guardian___Readers are gripped by Snap:'Full of suspenseful twists and turns' *****'Twisty, intriguing and so cleverly written I couldn't put it down' *****'A refreshingly different murder mystery' *****