Welcome to the official UK website of Belinda Bauer, author of Blacklands and Darkside
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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

Latest News
Belinda Bauer will be speaking at Cowbridge Book Festival’s annual Crime Night on Wednesday, 16 May. Belinda will be appearing with fellow crime writers, M.R. Hall and Martin O’Brien, in the atmospheric ...
Crime fans of Bristol! Belinda Bauer will be visiting Emerson’s Green Library on Tuesday, 1 May.  Do come along to hear her talk about her work, answer your questions and meet with ...
Reviews
Critical acclaim for Blacklands

‘Excellent first novel, with a highly original plot and convincingly clammy atmosphere . . . Belinda Bauer paces the rising tension with great skill and a confidence rarely exhibited by first-timers. She's a real find’ The Times

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER 2010
CWA 2010
It was a thrill just to be shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for my first novel, let alone to win. Blacklands is a small, simple book and I'm still stunned and delighted that it seems to have struck a chord with so many people.
Belinda Bauer