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Easy Meat
Jun 26, 2025 11:50 AM

Author:John Harvey

Easy Meat

Why would a fifteen-year-old boy commit suicide? Mind you, who cares when he's a no-good kid on trial for bludgeoning an elderly couple to death?

But when the senior investigating officer is then found brutally murdered, DI Charlie Resnick is put on the case, and uncovers some sinister and startling revelations.

It also brings Resnick into contact with Hannah Campbell, with whom he finds himself falling unexpectedly and awkwardly in love.

Reviews

This novel has joy, warmth and extreme violence: the compulsion to turn the page is almost painful

—— Mail on Sunday

Easy Meat is...a first-class story with a clever plot and believable characters, crafted by a writer on top form

—— The Times

Tautly written, beautifully plotted... I've never read such consistently good thrillers

—— Chris Patten

Burdett's attention to character and his studiously elegant prose style elevate this admittedly lurid work well above the usual raunchy thriller. Pensive, articulate Sonchai has a strong philosophical bent that makes him an excellent guide to the seamy Southeast Asian underworld

—— Entertainment Weekly

Like no other novel that's come my way lately. Ironic, sexy and trailing an odour that reminds me of a Bangkok Street after hours ... Expect to be enlightened

—— Literary Review

Open Bangkok Tattoo and you will read on and on, with wide-eyed fascination, some horror or disgust, and considerable delight

—— Washington Post

Starkly written, dropping in and out of patois and slang, Tom Benn paints a disturbing picture of our society's underclass.

—— Mark Timlin , Crime Time

Obvious echoes of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . . . darker and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose, it deserves to do equally well

—— Daily Express

Rubbernecker isn’t your average crime novel: it's far better than that

—— We Love This Book

Bauer has once again succeeded in creating an innovative path into detection

—— The Times

The exciting result reads like a collaboration between Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) and Barbara Vine

—— Sunday Telegraph

A brilliant description of autism from the inside

—— Literary Review

Obvious echoes of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . . . and with more twists and coils than a hangman's noose, it deserves to do equally well

—— Sunday Express

Bauer's great gift is her ability to surprise the reader: in the sense of making you jump out of your chair, certainly, but also in that she makes you think a bit differently about the world

—— Daily Telegraph

The exciting result reads like a collaboration between Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time) and Barbara Vine.

—— Sunday Telegraph

Bauer has once again succeeded in creating an innovative path into detection.

—— The Times

[Rubbernecker] contains one of the most startling plots in contemporary crime fiction

—— Sunday Times Culture Magazine

A fearlessly twisty whodunit

—— Metro

Belinda Bauer is one of the best British crime writers out there right now

—— Simon Kernick

Belinda Bauer's thrillers are always compelling, always original, always brilliant. I will rush to read anything she writes

—— Mark Billingham

Bold and original, Rubbernecker draws you into unexpected psychological territory with its sophisticated, fast-paced story. A thought-provoking page-turner you won't be able to put down.

—— KOETHI ZAN, author of The Never List
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