Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer - Review
Rubbernecker by Belinda Bauer Reviewed by Amanda Kennedy on April 23rd, 2016 Following my enjoyment of Rain Reign , I sought out an adult-themed novel with a central character on the autism spectrum. Rubbernecker stood out among the lists I found with the promise of a psychological thriller: a genre which rates highly among my preferred themes. What i loved most about Rubbernecker was the layers, so many layers of plot and story, all woven together seamlessly yet the outcomes were elusive until the very end. Patrick, the central character, is a young man with Asperger Syndrome and a fascination with death. Or rather, what happens to the body at the point of death. Having secured himself a place on the anatomy course at Cardiff University, he throws himself into study and meticulously analyses the cause of death for Cadaver 19: the body he and his team are dissecting. Patrick's black and white view of the world places him in precarious situations, including his arrest prompt