Belinda Bauer (born 1962) is a British writer of crime novels.
[4][5] She told a reporter she had been surprised to learn her book would be considered crime fiction because it wasn't a whodunit.
In 2014, her book Rubbernecker, set in Cardiff and Brecon, won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
[6] In July 2018 Bauer's novel, Snap, was longlisted for that year's Man Booker Prize, which was considered unusual for a work of crime fiction.
[7] In addition to crime novels, she published a thriller, High Rollers, under the name Jack Bowman, in 2013.