Snap

On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said. I won't be long.

But she doesn't come back. She never comes back. And life as the children know it is changed for ever.

Three years later, Jack is still in charge — of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and — quite suddenly — of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother...

Snap decisions can be dangerous...

Endorsements

Crime & Thriller Book of the Year — Specsavers National Book Awards

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.

'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.' — Val McDermid

'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.' — Clare Mackintosh

'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.' — C. L. Taylor

'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.' — Sunday Mirror

'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' — The Guardian