Blacklands
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FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNAP
'Extraordinarily powerful and evocative . . . will leave you breathless.' Daily Mirror
VOTED CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR when it was first released, and still the most gripping, powerful thriller debut you will read this year.
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Steven Lamb is 12…
Why read it?
1 author picked Blacklands as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The central idea of his book is a beauty. A kid writing to an incarcerated serial killer to try persuading him to reveal where he murdered and buried the boy’s brother. Bauer makes you really care about the crap existence of a nondescript sad sack child you wouldn’t give the time of day to in real life. I love it because the writing is superb and there’s a genuine sense of tension. All right, you know the outcome is going to be grimly inevitable. Until the story starts to take some very unexpected turns.
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