The Shut Eye

Author Belinda Bauer
Narrator Andrew Wincott
Publisher Transworld
Publish Date 12 March 2015
Run Time 9 hours and 3 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Psychological thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.

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'Belinda Bauer is a marvel. Her novels are almost indecently gripping and enjoyable, and The Shut Eye is possibly her best yet' SOPHIE HANNAH

Five footprints are the only sign that 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. Spiralling towards insanity.

When a psychic offers hope, Anna grasps it. Who wouldn't? Maybe he can tell her what happened to her son...

But is this man what he claims to be? Is he a visionary? A shut eye? Or a cruel fake, preying on the vulnerable?

Or is he something far, far worse?

Critics Review

[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

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

So much more than an simple whodunit - a clever, sophisticated modern crime novel

Sunday Mirror

[A] cracking psychological thriller

Good Housekeeping

Belinda Bauer is disconcerting. She follows none of the usual formulae governing crime fiction, defies easy labelling and sees deeper than most into people's emotions.

The Times

Nobody scares me quite like Belinda Bauer

Sharon Bolton

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