Snap: The astonishing Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

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The book tells all about the efforts of the little boy, who tries to dig holes on Exmoor, because he really wants to find the buried body of his uncle. They were divided by a single deep frown line that belonged to a man in his fifties with the cares of the world on his shoulders.

And he is determined to catch the brutal killer and at the same time he has to protect his terminally ill wife, Lucy. It is now 3 years later and Jack, while burglarizing a house he thought was vacant, discovers a knife exactly like the one used to murder his mother.Snap by Belinda Bauer is a gripping, masterfully written novel about a teenage boy’s hunt for his mother’s killer. The first half of the book moved slowly while the author set up the plot and developed the characters. Though frightened, she isn’t sure what to do next; she doesn’t want to worry her husband who often travels for work or, worse, smother herself with concern, so she burns the note, hides the knife, and tries to pretend it never happened. I highly recommend this novel to everyone who enjoys a solid, unique story peopled by fascinating characters, and written with heart.

Picture a cat tumbling its ball of yarn, but in reverse; in the beginning it feels as if we have individual strings that we come to realize have been from the same segment all along. In trying to find her, Tom risks not only giving away his location to the gangs he’s hiding from, but also becoming a target for her ruthless pursuers. A strong plot, a formidable air of menace and the avoidance of hillbilly horror cliche add up to a superbly executed cautionary tale about the malevolent force of parochialism. This novel by Belinda Bauer reminds me of why I started reading thrillers just about three years ago.There are echoes of earlier novels here: Julian Gloag’s Our Mother’s House and Ian McEwan’s The Cement Garden, but Bauer (as ever) is very much her own woman, and produces something that exerts a considerable grip on the reader. In 2014, her book Rubbernecker, set in Cardiff and Brecon, won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.