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Praise for Blacklands: 'A psychological tour-de-force' --Guardian
Praise for Blacklands: 'managed to glean the best word-of-mouth for any new crime novel in years' --Independent (Best Books of 2010)
`A remarkable achievement' --Independent, January 2012
`Surprise, of course, is the most potent aspect of suspense. And Belinda Bauer knows exactly how to manipulate that element, right until the very end. What's more, she's shown, not just how to keep surprise bubbling explosively away, but to do it with extraordinary dexterity, maturity and feeling' --Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror, January 2012
'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' --Financial Times, January 2012
'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.' --Sunday Times, January 2012
'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.' --Observer, January 2012
Praise for Blacklands: 'managed to glean the best word-of-mouth for any new crime novel in years' --Independent (Best Books of 2010)
`A remarkable achievement' --Independent, January 2012
`Surprise, of course, is the most potent aspect of suspense. And Belinda Bauer knows exactly how to manipulate that element, right until the very end. What's more, she's shown, not just how to keep surprise bubbling explosively away, but to do it with extraordinary dexterity, maturity and feeling' --Henry Sutton, Daily Mirror, January 2012
'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' --Financial Times, January 2012
'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.' --Sunday Times, January 2012
'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.' --Observer, January 2012
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Prepare to be gripped and chilled, with the sensational new novel from this award-winning crime writer
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nailbiting,
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I had never heard of this author previously, but I will be keeping an eye out for her forthcoming books from now on. This enthralling tale of children kidnapped, the only clue to their abductor being a note left on the windscreen, "you don't love him enough," is gripping and slightly disturbing My only concern was that I think you are supposed to read two books which comes before this, as there was frequent reference throughout, particularly in respect of two of the central characters, Davey and Steven, who I later discovered were from the first novel, Blacklands. I did subsequently read this and then the second, Darklands, which only enhanced my understanding of this novel. I would recommend reading these first but all in all, a really enjoyable thriller, which I can easily see being translated onto the big screen!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
For best results, read all three of her Exmoor books in order - I didn't and regret it slightly,
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Set in Exmoor, plucky little Jess Took is kidnapped from her father's vehicle while he is off managing the local hunt. Before you can say "who took Took?" another little boy is plucked from his parents' car. In both scenes the only evidence is a post-it note saying "you don't love her" or him. On the case is DI Reynolds who is initially more concerned with how his new hair transplant is taking until the crimes escalate to a full scale serial abduction case.This is the third book of Bauer's to feature young Stephen and local bobby, Jonas Holly. Poor Stephen has already been through a lot in his life as readers of the first two books will be well aware. Technically, it is quite possible to read this book as a stand alone, but I wouldn't advise it and in particular I wouldn't advise the reading pattern that I adopted which, for the first quarter of the book in particular, left me mindful of school days where I'd skived a particularly important lesson only to find that the subsequent lesson referred back repeatedly to the one I'd missed. Let me explain. I read and thoroughly enjoyed Bauer's first book, "Blacklands" but somehow her second, "Dark Side" remains sitting on my Amazon wish list. Stupidly, I jumped at the chance to read her latest and thereby missing out on the second adventure. Thus, I acknowledge that my partial reservations about this book in comparison with "Blacklands" are at least in part my own fault. One of the things that makes Bauer's books so interesting and real is that her characters are affected by the traumatic events of their past. It's blissfully free of the ridiculous conceit in places like "Midsummer" where the police seem to have no notion that their rural idle boasts the highest crime rate in the world. No. Bauer's characters are damaged by events and in particular both Stephen and even more so, Jonas Holly who we are told here suffered hugely in the second novel in the series. The downside to this is that to explain the mental state of Jonas in particular we have to get a lot of back story that I assume is in the second book. Almost exactly a quarter of the way through the book, DI Reynolds thought my own concerns when Bauer writes of him that "It was the memory of his previous failure on Exmoor that haunted him as much as this new one unfolding". Quite so. Once we get drawn into the present case, the book again soars into Bauer's darkly twisted mind. In particular there are a couple of short extracts told in the first person from the kidnapper that are suddenly thrown to the reader that are genuinely creepy. Although once we know who the kidnapper is, the circumstances are hardly less dark. Bauer creates real suspense and provides a number of plausible characters, and while the events are horrific, she manages to make them hellishly real. I know some readers don't like crime novels where children are the victims, and if this sounds like you, then this is probably not the book for you. But for the rest of us, providing you are not as stupid as I am and don't read only books one and three, then I'd highly recommend this series. It's certainly worth starting at the beginning though because, while this does work as a stand alone book, it reveals a lot about what happened in the previous books and it would be a great shame to ruin the tension that her books generate by knowing some of the outcomes. And you are almost certainly going to want to read more of her works. She probably hasn't done much for the holiday trade in Exmoor though.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Carelessly creating an enemy can set off a chain of crazed and cruel retribution,
By Mrs. Katharine Kirby "Kate" (HELSTON, Cornwall United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Finders Keepers (Hardcover)
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Settling in to Finders Keepers I had a feeling I should have read BB's other two books Blacklands and Darkside first. There appeared to be a running theme of multiple murders on Exmoor, previous unsolved cases and police inadequacy. However, don't worry, this one stands alone; it just tempts you to search out the earlier ones to flesh out the picture (and that's a horrid pun you'll understand in time).Anyone who loves a well-built crime novel will thoroughly enjoy this one. It is immediately gripping, absorbing and rewarding. On the flip side though there are some images that will stay with you for a very long time. I seriously hope that no one will ever decide to make a film of it. An X rating certainty. It's great to have a top-notch crime mystery set in the West Country. This is no Midsomer murder; the story line is just too ghastly and deep, with that enthralling property of believability. The children we come across are refreshingly well portrayed; their mixed up feelings, adolescent insecurity and resilience are all spot on. The stubborn doggedness of country people, the mean hearted casual way some men use authority, the imbalance caused by money owed to local suppliers, the apparently thoughtless behaviour of some parents, lop-sided values including that of a dog over a child... all boil up nicely to make the rich mix of terror that creeps with icy fingers through the text. Very rarely I am I so frightened that I want to look at the end just to see if a certain name is still there - this was one of those occasions and it was - but not for the right reason.
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