Exit: The brilliantly funny new crime novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of SNAP

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I read “Snap” back in 2018 and I remember really liking the author’s writing style, when I saw this one, I had to snap (ha ha) it up! As a member of the Exiteers, an anonymous, secret group in Devon that supports the right to die, 75-year-old widower Felix Pink witnesses the suicides of terminally ill patients. The plot is dark, but there is so much wit and humor that once the first couple of deaths occur, it doesn't feel dark at all. In Bauer's darkly comic thriller, an elderly widower discovers no good deed goes unpunished when his act of charity goes horribly wrong.

I laughed at her dog bark translations and could have read an entire book about Mabel going through her day, doing doggie things, as presented by Bauer.

When you read Felix’s past, his heart wrenching years he spent with his wife who was suffering from a terrible traumatic illness, his compelling experience as he sees his love of life’s destructive battle with dementia, even you’re a cruel cutthroat bitch, you cannot help yourself and start to wipe a like a baby! The other storyline features the detective Calvin and some of his police work in this case and a few others. When one of those sessions goes horribly awry, it seems he will go down for murder unless he can figure out what really happened.

It’s full of wit and humour and though there are occasions in the drama that I know i shouldn’t have been laughing but it’s so darned funny and you can’t help yourself. The patient fumbles the gas cylinder and Amanda instinctively retrieves it - thus committing a crime. Now his routine world is turned upside down as he tries to discover what went wrong, while staying one step ahead of the law.As a volunteer, you support those with “terminal illnesses” to “exit” a life where pain has become unbearable.

But at their last exit operation, his follow exiteer doesn’t follow the protocol and things get out of control.A story that would be a perfect subject for an 'Ealing Comedy' style thriller harking back to the days of farce, dark comedy and multiple plot twists, but with a 21st century setting.

Part of my detachment from this story is that I never connected with the characters, in particular Felix. The second main character is policeman Calvin Bridge who suffers from a lack of confidence, exacerbated by his wife leaving him. They are not allowed to aid them in taking their life, they only sit and watch, provide comfort, and a feeling of not being alone. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker.

Although I would have looked the other way if the ginger tomcat, that was a semi-lovable bully, accidentally received a faceful of water 😂. Thanks to NetGalley and Grove Atlantic for the preview copy from which I’ve quoted, (so quotes may have changed, of course). Just remember to keep that personal-ethical-political box locked up tight and have some patience for the ride.