Belinda Bauerâs
Snap was longlisted for the Booker prize; in her follow-up,
Exit (Bantam, £14.99), Felix Pink is a courteous elderly widower who facilitates the suicides of the terminally ill. When an assignment goes awry, Felix, now a murder suspect, tries to find out whether he is at fault or whether something more sinister has been going on. Meanwhile PC Calvin Bridge, relieved to have given up being a detective for the easier work of small-town policing, is dragooned by his boss into finding some answers. The process proves gainful â a new lease of life for Felix, confidence for Calvin, and the possibility of romance for both â and this intriguing, tender, funny and sometimes (in the best possible way) farcical novel about life and death is a sheer delight.