Belinda Bauer: The Impossible Thing, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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From the Sunday Times bestselling and Booker-longlisted author of Snap , and winner of the CWA Crime Novel of the Year, comes 'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' (Times Literary Supplement)

'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' Times Literary Supplement

'Extraordinary' ANN CLEEVES

'Pure joy' VAL MCDERMID

'Solid gold' LEE CHILD

'Astonishing' New York Times

*****

A gripping, funny and moving whodunnit about a hungry young girl, and a crime that remained unsolved for one hundred years. Until now.

On a summer's evening in 1926, six-year-old Celie Shepherd is not where a 6-year-old should be. Instead she is dangling from a cliff, reaching out to pocket an impossibly red egg. This bold theft will change the course of Celie's life, and the lives of others.

One hundred years later, a house is ransacked. The only thing missing: a dusty case containing an incredible scarlet egg.

Two crimes, committed for very different reasons, will set in train a sequence of events as mysterious as the egg itself . . .

A taut, wonderfully imagined novel brimming with skulduggery at every turn, The Impossible Thing is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer's status as one of our greatest living crime writers.

Praise for The Impossible Thing

'Enthralling , hilarious , mysterious ... I thoroughly enjoyed this book' 5-STAR reader review

'Comic, thrilling and ultimately moving' The Scottish Mail on Sunday

'This could be her best ever' LEE CHILD, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

'A captivating novel from one of the UK's most talented storytellers . I loved every page of this unique mystery.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You GO

'One of the most enjoyable novels I've read in ages ' PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train