Heart-stopping suspense, ancient mysteries and rollercoaster action ... a book that will have you cheering as you read

The story crackles with tension and imagination from the first to the last page . . . intrigue, treachery, history and a wealth of secrets. Super

A brainy, twisty, sometimes twisted mystery - part dazzling California noir, part dark American road trip, part sly psychological thriller-and entirely ingenious

Clever, taut and twisting

She's a thriller queen... The woman most likely to lead the fightback against the Scandinavian crime-wave

The most disturbing new talent around

Bauer is not occupied by writing a "crime story" - although there is a crime at the heart of it - she is more interested in writing a novel

Finders Keepers has an enjoyably creepy premise... But it's the book's humour that really shines. Bauer reveals her Gold Dagger-winning writing credentials in her neat skewering of everyday pomposities and her wry asides

Belinda Bauer hit the big time with the excellent Blacklands and continues to explore her theme of West Country cruelty and corruption, balancing the procedural and psychological aspects of crime. Once again she nails the petty grievances, prejudices and loyalties of village life, and shows how some law enforcers operate at the outer edge of competence

Bauer has established a reputation for plunging her characters into unimaginable gore. Her third novel easily matches her previous efforts, exposing village bobby Jonas Holly...to events unprecedented in British crime fiction. The British countryside has never appeared so alien or so macabre

One of the leading names in crime fiction