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The exceptional new crime novel from Belinda Bauer, the award-winning author of Rubbernecker .
EVERY KILLER HAS TO START SOMEWHERE . . .

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FROM THE CRIME WRITER LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 ´Bauer´s great gift is her ability to surprise the reader . . . She makes you think a bit differently about the world´ Daily Telegraph

On the beaches and cliffs of North Devon, young women have become victims in a terrifying game where only one player knows the rules. And when those rules change, the new game is Murder.

But a madman on the loose feels very far from the crumbling, seaside home of ten-year-old Ruby Trick. Instead she lives in constant fear of school bullies, the dark forest, and the threat of her parents´ divorce.

Helping her father to catch the killer seems like the only way to keep him close.

As long as the killer doesn´t catch her first.

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"Bauer at her best . . . the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell" (Mail on Sunday 20140330)

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Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa and now lives in Wales. She worked as a journalist and a screenwriter before finally writing a book to appease her nagging mother. For her debut, Blacklands, Belinda was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. She went on to win the CWA Dagger in the Library for her body of work. Her fourth novel, Rubbernecker, was voted Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Her eighth novel, Snap, was a Sunday Times bestseller. It was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and voted Crime & Thriller Book of the Year at the Specsavers National Book Awards. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages.

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