



Exit
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4.4 • 37 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
From the award-winning author of Snap and Rubbernecker, Exit is the story of Felix Pink, an older man with a group that helps people who have chosen to die with dignity. But there’s been a mistake, and Felix’s life is about to change forever.
Belinda Bauer is “Britain’s most original crime writer” (Crime Scene), one of the few authors in the genre to be longlisted for the Man Booker prize. Now she returns with a heart-pounding, heartbreaking, and often hilarious new crime novel in which it’s never too late for life to go fatally wrong.
Felix Pink is retired. Widowed for more than a decade, a painfully literal thinker, he has led a life of routine and is, not unhappily, waiting to die a hopefully boring death. He occupies himself volunteering as an Exiteer—someone who sits with terminally ill people as they die by suicide, assisting with logistics and lending moral support, then removing the evidence so that family and friends are not implicated in the death. When Felix lets himself in to Number 3 Black Lane, he’s there to perform an act of kindness and charity: to keep a dying man company as he takes his final breath.
But just fifteen minutes later Felix is on the run from the police—after making the biggest mistake of his life. Now his routine world is turned upside down as he tries to discover whether what went wrong was a simple mistake—or deliberate. Murder.
Belinda Bauer continues to redefine the boundaries of crime fiction, with a novel that is part murder mystery, part coming-of-old-age story—however short that future may be. With the compassion and dark humor of Jonas Jonasson and the twisted thriller plotting of Rear Window, Exit is a novel readers will not soon forget.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lonely widower Felix Pink, the protagonist of this droll whodunit from British author Bauer (Snap), belongs to a right-to-die group, the Exiteers, whose members assist the terminally ill who are in pain and discomfort, and quietly sit with them when they die. The families of those ailing give permission to the Exiteers to witness the self-administering of nitrous oxide through a mask, ensuring a peaceful death. Arriving at the home of a client, Albert Cann, Felix finds the key under the doormat as promised, and the oxygen mask and cylinder on the nightstand. But an unintentional mistake sends Felix into hiding from the Bideford, England, police as a murder suspect, and the Cann family looks for answers and Albert's will. In the subsequent investigation, Constable Calvin Bridge interviews the Cann house cleaner and the Exiteers' founder, among others. Felix's caring neighbor, Miss Knott, gently insinuates herself into his life, supporting his innocence and suggesting the possibility of new romance. Each distinctive character has a sense of humor sure to prompt belly laughs from the reader. Bauer knows how to entertain. \n
Customer Reviews
Recommended
A fun read, creative plot line, somewhat surprising conclusion.
Brilliant
Exiteers are Good Samaritans who help the dying find their way to the end. But when something goes wrong, who is to blame? This book has you questioning every relationship and motive of everyone in Skipper and Albert’s universe, while showing the boundless empathy of certain people in an impossible situation. The personalities are quirky, the writing is clever, and you might find yourself smiling…while reading a murder mystery.
Unique and entertaining
I enjoyed the author’s writing style. The book was full of entertaining, believable & likable characters. The plot was unique and unpredictable. I truly liked this book and would recommend it! I found myself looking forward to reading it and smiling at the situations and surprises!! (You wouldn’t think the subject matter could be turned into such a good read- but it definitely was!)