Belinda Bauer

Belinda Bauer is a British crime writer whose darkly original novels have won critical acclaim and major awards. Born in England, she grew up in various countries and studied screenwriting at the National Film and Television School. She won the CWA Gold Dagger for her debut novel Blacklands. The Beautiful Dead follows a TV crime reporter who receives a letter from a serial killer offering her exclusive access to his story — if she can follow his rules. Bauer's fiction is praised for its dark humour, its unpredictable plotting, and its psychologically complex characters. She has been shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year multiple times. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers darkly inventive crime fiction where the unexpected is the only thing you can expect.