There’s no safety in numbers…

Eve Singer needs death. With her career as a TV crime reporter flagging, she’ll do anything to satisfy her ghoulish audience.

The killer needs death too. He even advertises his macabre public performances, where he hopes to show the whole world the beauty of dying.

When he contacts Eve, she welcomes the chance to be first with the news from every gory scene. Until she realizes that the killer has two obsessions.

One is public murder.

And the other one is her…

‘I have read serial killer-yarns that are more frightening but few as entertaining or, in its low-key way, as moving.’ – The Daily Telegraph 

Her publishers might have borrowed the winged insect cover motif from Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, but if any writer is worthy of comparison with the master it’s the formidably talented Brit Belinda Bauer – Financial Times

‘A disturbing, intelligent and, at times, genuinely moving story, The Beautiful Dead is written with subtlety and an impressive lightness of touch.’ – The Guardian

 ‘… Readers will root for Bauer’s spunky heroine on this suspenseful slay ride through a snow-globe London.’  – Publishers’ Weekly (US)

 ‘Readers who like police procedurals with a snarky, jaded onlooker on the side will enjoy this thriller, which is something between Tana French and Karin Slaughter and will work for readers who stay up late reading either of those authors.’ – Booklist US 

‘Twice awarded Crime Novelist Of The Year, Belinda Bauer used to be a screenwriter and it shows in the fast pace and mounting tension that makes The Beautiful Dead a book you’ll read in one go with all the lights blazing after you’ve made sure every door is locked.’ – Red Magazine

‘…  with sharply spiked claws that hook into your mind and don’t let go, ’The Beautiful Dead’ is a heart pounding and captivating read.’ – Love Reading

‘Belinda Bauer is the connoisseur of crime novels.’ ­Evening Standard

‘Bauer aficionados need not hesitate; she’s on typically scabrous form here.’ – The Financial Times 

‘Fast paced, taut and super scary.’ – Fabulous Magazine

‘… trademark ingenuity.’ – The Sunday Times 

‘Excellent and disturbing crimer.’ – The Sunday Sport

 ‘Polished and breathtakingly tense, this novel of obsession and murder takes a firm grip from the start.’ – Woman and Home

‘Disturbs and scares the reader in a different, original manner… excellent tension.’ The Times 

 ‘This wintry chiller is a fantastic take on a serial killer thriller.’ The Sunday Mirror

‘I have read serial killer-yarns that are more frightening but few as entertaining or, in its low-key way, as moving.’ – The Daily Telegraph

‘Bauer paints her devastating tales with all the deftness of an Old Master… This increasingly taut thriller is page-clawing material that could make an edge-of-the-seat television drama or big screen blockbuster.’ The Sunday Express 

 ‘A disturbing, intelligent and, at times, genuinely moving story, The Beautiful Dead is written with subtlety and an impressive lightness of touch.’ – The Guardian 

‘This thriller brings together two outstanding British talents, award-winning crime writer Belinda Bauer and narrator Andrew Wincott. The combination is deeply satisfying.’ –Audiofile Magazine review, US.