The Shut Eye - Softcover

Bauer, Belinda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802124852 ISBN 13: 9780802124852

Publisher: Grove Press, 2016

Synopsis

Belinda Bauer is a phenomenal voice in British crime fiction, whose work has garnered rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. The Shut Eye is a spine-tingling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about a woman who gets involved with a psychic who may be able to find her missing son.

Five footprints are the only sign that four-year-old Daniel Buck was ever here. And now they are all his mother has left. Every day, Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiraling towards insanity.

Anna is desperate for hope, which she’s not getting from the police, or her husband James. So when a woman tells her she’s found a true psychic, a shut eye,” she grasps at it. Maybe he can tell her what happened to her son. But when she meets the psychic, what she gets is not at all what she suspected.

Matching breathtaking suspense with a keen exploration of skepticism in the face of the unexplainable, The Shut Eye is a riveting read from one of our finest crime writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Belinda Bauer is the author of six award-winning novels which have been translated into twenty-one languages. She won the Crime Writers Association s Gold Dagger Award for Crime Novel of the Year for "Blacklands," the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for "Rubbernecker," and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award for outstanding body of work. She lives in Wales."

Review:

"The most polished crime writer on the murder beat ... Exhausting, exhilarating and damn scary" Daily Express "'Belinda Bauer is a marvel. Her novels are almost indecently gripping and enjoyable, and The Shut Eye is possibly her best yet" Sophie Hannah "One of the most individual of crime writers ... Bauer is streets ahead of most of her rivals" Independent "A twisty, fast-paced plot that kept me on tenterhooks" Woman & Home "An intricate plot, extremely moving in some places - Bauer's ability to get under the skins of her characters is second to none" Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0802124852
• ISBN 13: 9780802124852
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304