Crime & Thriller Book of the Year (Specsavers National Book Awards)
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018.
 
'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time.'
VAL MCDERMID
 
SNAP DECISIONS CAN BE DANGEROUS . . . On a stifling summer's day, eleven-year-old Jack and his two sisters sit in their broken-down car, waiting for their mother to come back and rescue them. Jack's in charge, she'd said.

I won't be long. But she doesn't come back. She never comes back.

And life as the children know it is changed for ever.
 
Three years later, Jack is still in charge - of his sisters, of supporting them all, of making sure nobody knows they're alone in the house, and - quite suddenly - of finding out the truth about what happened to his mother . . .
 
'Original, pacy and thoroughly entertaining . . . a cracking read.'
CLARE MACKINTOSH
 
'No one writes crime novels like Belinda Bauer, with a rare blend of darkness, humour and heart. She's a crime writing genius.'
C. L. TAYLOR
 
'Edgy, original and beautifully written, this suspenseful story is dazzlingly good.'
Sunday Mirror
 
'The opening of Snap is one of the most vividly unnerving I have read . . . razor-sharp observation.' Guardian