Snap

by Belinda Bauer
This worked as a crime novel but not sure how it ended on the Booker longlist-other than Val McDermid is one of the judges this year and she appears on the cover of the book raving about how good it is.
It has a good plot line which keeps you reading but the language was pretty underwhelming and cliched in places.
It is the story of Jack who gets abandoned by his mother- along with two younger siblings- on the hard shoulder of the M5 while she goes to call for help. She never comes back and is found murdered a week later. The story is what happened next. 7/10