Darkside : [A Novel] (Hardcover)

from Ricoh4

Firstly let me say how much I enjoy Belinda Bauer's writing style, especially the layer of humour just under the surface of, at times, a very bleak and unsettling narrative. Set in Shipcott within sight of Exmoor this clever story focuses on the village bobby - it is a stand-alone novel but with ...

from DeltaQueen50

Darkside by Belinda Bauer is a book, I believe that will stay with me for some time. It is intense, dark and riveting. The setting is familiar from her first book, Blacklands, the remote village of Shipcott on the edge of Exmoor. The main character is Jonas Holly the village policeman who once dr...

from adpaton

A remote village of the English moors isolated by heavy snowfalls in the bleak midwinter, a community where everyone knows everyone else and strangers are noticed immediately, and a series of murders, What could be more delightful? Darkside is Belinda Bauer's second novel, taking place four years...

from Ant.Harrison

Belinda Bauer's second novel, Darkside, is once again set on Exmoor, and is a fast-paced thriller/crime story. A serial killer is murdering old, defenceless residents of a nursing home in an isolated village. One by one, more people die at the hands of this seemingly indiscriminate killer. The in...

from teresa1953

I was bitterly disappointed in this book. I enjoyed "Blacklands" immensely, but this latest novel by Belinda Bauer was inferior in every way. Contrived characters and and a less than convincing storyline spoilt what could have been an engaging book. It also came to a rushed and abrupt end, with a...