If you are here on purpose then thank you and welcome. If you just stumbled by, feel free to stay and poke around. You might like to take a look at the kind of books I'm writing and why. The answers are 'crime' and 'for money', but that's not the whole story.
'Crime' is a loose word in a tight niche. Crime is really the story of how lives are changed by the misdeeds of others. From the pensioner who loses her savings in a stock-market crash, to the refugee, to the mugging victim. Life is a river and crime is the rocks. It's only when we hit a rock that we find out whether we are one of life's swimmers - or one of life's sinkers. It's that struggle for survival and recovery that interests me - the rock itself is almost incidental.
So I write crime, but really I just write people.
Why not enter my world and hit those rocks with me?
I hope that you’re a swimmer…
Belinda
RUBBERNECKER receives glowing reviews!
‘Obvious echoes of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . . . and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose, it deserves to do equally well’ Sunday Express
‘Taking the psychological thriller into new territory’ Independent
‘The exciting result reads like a collaboration between Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) and Barbara Vine’ Sunday Telegraph
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'The dead can't speak to us,' Professor Madoc had said.
That was a lie.
Because the body Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things.
Life is already strange enough for the obsessive Patrick without having to solve a possible murder. Especially when no one believes a crime has even taken place. Now he must stay out of danger long enough to unravel the mystery - while he dissects his own evidence.
But as Patrick learns one truth from a dead man, he discovers there have been many other lies closer to home...