Belinda Bauer
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Kaheteistaastane Steven Lamb kaevab Exmoori nõmmel auke. Ta loodab sealt laipa leida. Steven kaevab iga päev: pärast kooli ja nädalavahetuseti, kui tema klassikaaslased omavahel jalgpallikleepse vahetavad. Ta soovib, et ta onu hing saaks lõpuks rahu. Selle onu hing, keda ta ei tundnud, kes jäi üheteistkümneaastasena teadmata kadunuks ning kellest arvatakse, et ta sattus kurikuulsa sarimõrvari Arnold Avery küüsi. Üksnes Steveni memm ei suuda uskuda, et ta poeg on surnud. Tema ootab teda endiselt koju ning seisab vankumatult eesakna all valvel, sellal kui pere ta ümber koost laguneb. Steven on võtnud nõuks aina mureneva pere taas kokku viia, enne kui on hilja. Ja kui selleks on vaja vanaemale tema mõrvatud poja luid näidata, siis seda ta ka teeb. Nõnda teeb poiss järgmise loogilise sammu ning saadab Arnold Averyle vanglasse hoolikalt koostatud kirja. Seepeale algab meeleheitel lapse ja tülpinud sarimõrvari vahel ohtlik kassi ja hiire mäng. Mäng, millel on jubedamad tagajärjed, kui Steven eales oleks osanud ette kujutada. Belinda Bauer (1962) on Briti kirimikirjanik. Ta lapsepõlv möödus Inglismaal ja Lõuna-Aafrikas, hiljem kolis ta Walesi, kus töötas Cardiffis kohtureporterina; selle käigus omandatud teadmised leiavad nüüd kasutust tema krimilugudes. Baueri debüütromaan „Blacklands“ võitis Briti Krimikirjanike ühingu Kuldse Pistoda kui 2010. aasta parim krimiromaan. 2014. aastal ilmunud krimiromaan „Rubbernecker“ võitis Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year auhinna. Bauer on endine ajakirjanik ja stsenarist; tema stsenaarium filmile „The Locker Room“ võitis BAFTA Carl Foremani eriauhinna. 2018. aasta juulis jõudis Belinda Baueri romaan „Snap“ selle aasta Man Bookeri auhinna nominentide nimekirja. Baueri raamatuid on tõlgitud 25 keelde. „Blacklands“ on esimene, mis ilmub eesti keeles.
Exit
From the award-winning author of Snap and Rubbernecker , Exit is the story of Felix Pink, an older man with a group that helps people who have chosen to die with dignity. But there’s been a mistake, and Felix’s life is about to change forever. Belinda Bauer is “Britain’s most original crime writer” ( Crime Scene ), one of the few authors in the genre to be longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Now she returns with a heart-pounding, heartbreaking, and often hilarious new crime novel in which it’s never too late for life to go fatally wrong. Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a decade, a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully boring death. He occupies himself volunteering as an Exiteer—someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence so that family and friends are not implicated in the death. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath. But just fifteen minutes later Felix is on the run from the police—after making the biggest mistake of his life. Now his routine world is turned upside down as he tries to discover whether what went wrong was a simple mistake—or deliberate. Murder. Belinda Bauer continues to redefine the boundaries of crime fiction, with a novel that is part murder mystery, part coming-of-old-age story—however short that future may be. With the compassion and dark humor of Jonas Jonasson and the twisted thriller plotting of Rear Window , Exit is a novel readers will not soon forget.
Snap
From award-winning crime writer Belinda Bauer, “the true heir to the great Ruth Rendell” [ Mail on Sunday (UK)], Snap is a gripping novel about a teenage boy’s hunt for his mother’s killer. Jack’s in charge, said his mother as she disappeared up the road to get help. I won’t be long. Now eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters wait on the hard shoulder in their stifling, broken-down car, bickering and whining and playing I-Spy until she comes back. But their mother doesn’t come back. She never comes back. And after that long, hot summer’s day, nothing will ever be the same again. Three years later, Jack’s fifteen now and still in charge . . . alone in the house. Meanwhile across town, a young woman called Catherine While wakes to find a knife beside her bed, and a note reading I could of killed you . The police are tracking a mysterious burglar they call Goldilocks, for his habit of sleeping in the beds of the houses he robs, but Catherine doesn’t see the point of involving the police. And Jack, very suddenly, may be on the verge of finding out who killed his mother. A twisty, masterfully written novel that will have readers on the edge of their seats, Snap is Belinda Bauer at the height of her powers.
