Snap: The astonishing Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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And, PC Rice’s good-natured teasing of DS Reynolds, and his feigned disinterest, was another highlight. There were a few details I thought could have been filled in more, and I think there’s a gap in the timeline, but the pacing, the characterisation and the careful unravelling of the drama is exquisite. Never has a character study of many working parts felt so much like a thrilling, plot driven experience in all my years of reading.

which contains several nods to such folk-horror classics as The Wicker Man, although the murderous pagan rituals here are performed to bring prosperity to the fictional village of St Petroc. I will stop this rant now by saying that I don't blame Belinda Bauer - she wrote a good book for what she was trying to do. It's a satisfying feeling for the reader, as I'm sure it is to the author who has created such a feat.Her body was found several days later, and the children’s father, after trying to cope, disappeared. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he's there to perform an act of charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath .

Although Catherine’s reasons for not reporting her alarming findings to either her husband or the police don’t ring entirely true, Bauer deftly weaves these strands together for an intelligent mystery, written with razor-sharp observation and wry humour. Marvel, a senior detective exiled to “darkest Somerset” after a fall from grace at his London post, disdains the hunt for Goldilocks as much as he longs for a homicide case. As they wait for her on the shoulder of the road in their stifling, broken-down car, the three children bicker, whine and play I-Spy.However, he hasn’t been taking his anti-seizure medication and for some reason his late father’s cut-throat razor is in his room. Heavily pregnant Catherine, whose husband, Adam, is away on business, drives off an unseen home invader only to find an abalone-handled knife placed next to a scrawled note: “I could have killed you.

But just fifteen minutes later Felix is on the run from the police - after making the biggest mistake of his life.Using crime to pay for their survival, Jack stumbles across his mother's killer and is determined to bring him/her to justice. The hairless saviour, fence, thief and liar, Louis Bridge proves to be an invaluable help to the young Jack, as Jack finds himself living on the edges of society, surviving and providing for his family by acquiring the skills of a cat burglar. Thank you Grove Atlantic and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review "Snap" and share my honest opinion. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. That is until the day he sees the incriminating knife that he is convinced killed his mother in the home of the pregnant Catherine While.