by Belinda Bauer
Interesting story telling about Patrick, a young person with Asperger's syndrome. He is a loner who lost his father when he was young in a car accident. And his mother is a drunk and dislike him because of his disability. Patrick like to study death because he didn't understand how his father had ...
I received a copy of this book through Goodreads' First Reads in exchange for an honest review.This is a book you cannot put down. I was hooked from page one.The book follows multiple interconnected characters as they navigate through their lives, solving mysteries and learning how to live along the...
Bauer is new to me, and a welcome find. Nothing beats a good crime story now and then, and I look forward to reading more of hers. This one features an unlikely and amateur detective (my favorite kind) in an odd circumstance told via the shifting perspectives of British narrators, who kept me readin...
My first Belinda Bauer and probably my last. Gimmick: Crime-fighting sleuth (Patrick Fort) with Asperger’s syndrome. The gimmick and some inconsistencies - eg, the inability of almost every other character, other than Patrick Fort, to understand how to cope with his behaviour, called for Suspens...
The dead can’t speak to us,’ Professor Madoc had said. But that was a lie. Sometimes, only an outsider can get to the truth. Patrick has been on the outside all his life. Thoughtful, but different, infuriating even to his own mother, his life changes when he follows an obsession with death to study ...
Patrick Fort suffers from Aspergers syndrome and he finds it difficult to communicate and interact with others. Patrick is a medical student and during the examination of a "body" he questions the cause of death and believes a foul act has been committed. This is a very clever book and the writing a...
Rubbernecker has to be one of the disturbing books that I have read this year. The main character, Patrick has asperger's syndrome who starts a course in anatomy at university. His trouble starts when he develops a big interest in the body that he is studying. At the same time we see a story develo...
'The dead can't speak to us,' Professor Madoc had said.But that was a lie.Sometimes, only an outsider can get to the truth.Patrick has been on the outside all his life. Thoughtful, but different, infuriating even to his own mother, his life changes when he follows an obsession with death to study an...
3.5 stars
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