Belinda Bauer (author)

This article is about the writer Belinda Bauer. For the actress Belinda Bauer, see Belinda Bauer (actress).

Belinda Bauer (born 1962) is a British writer of crime novels. She grew up in England and South Africa,[1] and her debut novel Blacklands earned her the British Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of 2010.[2] Both Blacklands and her second novel Darkside (2011) are set in the village of Shipcott, on Exmoor, in north Devon, England. Both have been translated into several languages.

Finders Keepers is Belinda Bauer's third novel, also set in the tiny village of Shipcott. The book was released in the UK on 5 January 2012, and in the USA on 28 February 2012.

In 2014, her book "Rubbernecker" won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[3]

Bauer is a former journalist and screenwriter, having won the Carl Foreman BAFTA for her screenplay The Locker Room.[4]

Bibliography

References

  1. "Biography". Author's website. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  2. "Belinda Bauer wins the CWA Gold Dagger 2010". Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
  3. Lea, Richard (2014-07-18). "Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year taken by Belinda Bauer". the Guardian. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
  4. "BAUER, BELINDA". Literature Wales. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
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