Rubbernecker described by judges of the £3,000 prize as an 'utterly absorbing and brilliantly realised novel … a really special book
'It feels like a very lucky accident' … Belinda Bauer
Belinda Bauer has won the £3,000 Theakstons Old Peculier crime novel of the year award with Rubbernecker. Speaking at the ceremony on the opening night of the Harrogate crime writing festival, Bauer said: "This is really unexpected, it feels like a very lucky accident to win this award when my fellow shortlisted authors seem so much smarter than me."
Bauer's fourth novel is the story of Patrick Fort, a medical student with Asperger syndrome who finds himself on the trail of a murder. Fort's investigations are woven together with a man lying speechless and unable to move in the neurological ward who thinks he has witnessed a crime, and a nurse who's more interested in getting rich than looking after her patients.
Judge Steve Mosby hailed the novel as an "extraordinary crime novel".
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Bauer's fourth novel is the story of Patrick Fort, a medical student with Asperger syndrome who finds himself on the trail of a murder. Fort's investigations are woven together with a man lying speechless and unable to move in the neurological ward who thinks he has witnessed a crime, and a nurse who's more interested in getting rich than looking after her patients.
Judge Steve Mosby hailed the novel as an "extraordinary crime novel".
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