12-year-old Steven Lamb’s uncle disappeared aged 11 and is assumed to have fallen victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery. But Steven’s Nan doesn’t think her son is dead. Steven wants to prove he’s gone and so he writes to Avery in prison. So begins a dangerous game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer.
Blacklands
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9780552158848
Corgi Books
Paperback
347pp
Corgi Books
198x127x22
Belinda Bauer Corgi Books FF|FFJ|FH Paperback 2010
[Belinda Bauer] is such an interesting writer – a restless intelligence that always goes its own way, but always comes up with something that feels both surprising but inevitable.
Lee Child
Extraordinarily powerful and provocative… will leave you breathless
Daily Mirror
An excellent first novel, with a highly original plot
The Times
A very special debut thriller, and a clear-eyed depiction of ordinary people under extraordinary stress. This is something quite new
ANN CLEEVES, bestselling author of the Vera and Shetland novels
A psychological tour-de-force about the cruelty of hope and, ultimately, the triumph of innocence
Guardian