From the Sunday Times bestselling and Booker-longlisted author of Snap, and winner of the CWA Crime Novel of the Year, comes 'An exciting contemporary whodunnit' (Times Literary Supplement)

***** A unique crime novel that is both moving and funny . . . highly recommend ***** 5-STAR reader review

A summer s evening in 1926, and six-year-old Celie Shepherd is hungry, desperate and dangling from a cliff, as she stretches out to steal something impossible. The bold theft will change Celie s life, and the lives of many others.

One hundred years later, a remote home is ransacked by masked men. The only thing taken: a dusty box containing that same impossible thing. What could be so unique - and so valuable - that it is stolen again and again . . . and again?

So begins this extraordinary mystery from award-winning Belinda Bauer. The Impossible Thing brims with skulduggery at every turn, and is a blazing testament to Belinda Bauer s status as one of our greatest living crime writers.

The most suspenseful whodunnit you ll read this year
LEE CHILD

A funny, moving and beautifully written tale Guardian

'Joyous . . . The most gripping yarn Daily Telegraph

'A brilliant rollercoaster of a crime novel' ROB COWEN

Readers are OBSESSED with The Impossible Thing!
Enthralling, hilarious, mysterious I thoroughly enjoyed this book 5-STAR reader review
A perfect crime caper' Woman & Home
Pure joy VAL MCDERMID
Packs a real punch ANN CLEEVES
Astonishing New York Times
'Comic, thrilling and ultimately moving' The Scottish Mail on Sunday
I loved every page of this unique mystery. CLARE MACKINTOSH, bestselling author of I Let You GO
One of the most enjoyable novels I've read in ages PAULA HAWKINS, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train