Book description
“Breathtaking. I read this and wished I’d written it.”—Val McDermid
Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has won the CWA’s Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year and garnered rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the 2014 Theakstons…
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1 author picked Rubbernecker as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I've never read a book quite like this. It was a little challenging to get into, but by the time I finished, I was blown away by the author's talent.
The character-driven plot makes whiplash-inducing twists and turns from several points of view. The reader is first drawn into the mind of a comatose patient who is slowly regaining consciousness and thinks he sees his roommate being murdered.
Next, we're following Patrick Fort, a teenager with Asperger's Syndrome, who has won a disability scholarship to study anatomy at Cardiff University. Patrick has spent the last ten years fixated on finding…
From P.L.'s list on forensic that are gruesome, but fascinating.
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