Book description
Twelve-year-old Steven Lamb digs holes on Exmoor, hoping to find a
body. Every day after school, while his classmates swap football
stickers, Steven goes digging to lay to rest the ghost of the uncle he
never knew, who disappeared aged eleven and is assumed to have fallen
victim to the notorious serial killer Arnold Avery.
Only Steven's Nan is not convinced her son is dead. She still waits
for him to come home, standing bitter guard at the front window while
her family fragments around her. Steven is determined to heal the
widening cracks between them before it's too late. And if that means
presenting his grandmother with the bones of her murdered son, he'll
do it.
So the boy takes the next logical step, carefully crafting a letter
to Arnold Avery in prison. And there begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse
game between a desperate child and a bored serial killer . . .
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa. She has worked as
a journalist and screenwriter and her script
The Locker Room
earned her the Carl Foreman/Bafta Award for Young British Screenwriters.
Belinda lives in Wales and is currently working on her second novel.
