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.
The Tuva Moodyson author on his tense new thriller The Last Thing to Burn and why he has abandoned the UK for life in the Swedish woods
‘I like bad weather and bleak landscapes’… Will Dean, with Bernie the St Bernard, at his home in Sweden.
‘I like bad weather and bleak landscapes’… Will Dean, with Bernie the St Bernard, at his home in Sweden.
Tue 22 Dec 2020 08.03 EST
Last modified on Thu 31 Dec 2020 03.45 EST
Appropriately enough for the author of one of the most horrifyingly compulsive thrillers you’ll read in 2021 – I stayed up until 2am to finish it, and then reread the ending in the morning because I’d read it so fast in my terror – Will Dean is talking to me from his cabin deep in the Swedish woods.