Belinda Bauer is a British writer of crime novels. She grew up in England and South Africa, and her debut novel Blacklands earned her the British Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of 2010. Both Blacklands and her second novel Darkside are set in the village of Shipcott, on Exmoor, in north Devon, England. Both have been translated into several languages. Finders Keepers is Belinda Bauer's third novel, also set in the tiny village of Shipcott. The book was released in the UK on 5 January 2012, and in the USA on 28 February 2012. Bauer is a former journalist and screenwriter, having won the Carl Foreman BAFTA for her screenplay The Locker Room. 

December 24th, 1962 in (Age 61)