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Sharon Bolton Books In Order

Lacey Flint Books In Order

  1. Now You See Me (2011)
  2. Dead Scared (2012)
  3. Like This, For Ever (2013)
  4. A Dark and Twisted Tide (2014)
  5. The Dark (2022)

Craftsman Trilogy Books In Order

  1. The Craftsman (2018)
  2. The Poisoner (2022)

Novels

  1. Sacrifice (2008)
  2. Awakening (2009)
  3. Blood Harvest (2010)
  4. Little Black Lies (2015)
  5. Daisy in Chains (2016)
  6. Dead Woman Walking (2017)
  7. The Split (2020)
  8. The Pact (2021)

Collections

  1. The Night Train (2021)

Novellas

  1. Alive (2018)

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Sharon Bolton Books Overview

Now You See Me

One night after interviewing a reluctant witness at a London apartment complex, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed just moments before in the building’s darkened parking lot. Within twenty four hours a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper s first murder a letter that calls out Lacey by name. If it s real, and they have a killer bent on re creating London s bloody past, history shows they have just five days until the next attempt. No one believes the connections are anything more than a sad*istic killer s game, not even Lacey, whom the killer seems to be taunting specifically. However, as they investigate the details of the case start reminding her more and more of a part of her past she d rather keep hidden. And the only way to do that is to catch the killer herself. Fast paced and completely riveting, S. J. Bolton s Now You See Me is a modern gothic novel that is nothing less than a masterpiece of suspense fiction. Now You See Me is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Mysteries title. One of Library Journal’s Best Mystery Books of 2011

Dead Scared

London Police officer Lacey Flint must go deep undercover to stop whoever is preying on Cambridge students in the sequel to S. J. Bolton’s widely acclaimed Now You See Me When a rash of suicides tears through Cambridge University,DI Mark Joesbury recruits DC Lacey Flint to go undercover asa student to investigate the suspicious deaths. Given the circumstances,no one is convinced that the victims acted alone. Theybelieve that someone is preying on lonely and insecure studentsand either encouraging them to take their own lives or actuallyluring them to their deaths. So long as Lacey can play the roleof a vulnerable young woman, she may be able to stop thesedeaths, but is it just a role? With a past as fragile as hers is shedrawing out the killers or is she getting drawn into a deadly gamewhere she is a perfect victim? Dark and compelling, S. J. Bolton slatest thriller a follow up to Now You See Me is another workof brilliant psychological suspense that plumbs the most sinisterdepths.

Sacrifice

In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it’s the first time he’s been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman’s heart has been cut out and that she was killed within a few days of bearing a child, Tora, herself an obstetrician, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to her-even when the police, her colleagues and eventually her husband warn her against getting involved.

Reading town records and researching local lore, Tora discovers a disturbing link to ancient Shetland legend and uncovers a collection of deep, dark secrets—the kind of secrets worth killing for.

Sacrifce is a bone-chilling, spell-binding debut that will grip readers from its beginning to its startling end.

Awakening

Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse. Disfigured by a childhood accident, she generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Clara’s expertise is needed. She s chilled to learn that the victim s postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake and that therefore the killer must be human.

Assisted by a soft spoken neighbor and an eccentric reptile expert, Clara unravels sinister links to an abandoned house, an ancient ritual, and a fifty year old tragedy that has left the survivors secretive. But for someone the truth must remain buried in the past even if they have to kill to keep it there.

Awakening is a disturbing tale of dark secrets and insidious rituals that will have readers unable to stop for a breath until they ve reach the stunning climax of this extraordinary read from the author of the acclaimed debut novel Sacrifice.

Blood Harvest

The Fletchers’ beautiful new house is everything they dreamed it would be. Built between two churches in Heptonclough, a small village on the moors that time forgot, it ought to be paradise for this young family of five, but they barely have a chance to settle in before they find that they re anything but welcome. Someone seems to be trying to drive them away at first with silly pranks but then with threats that become increasingly dangerous, especially to the oldest child, ten year old Tom Fletcher, who begins to believe that someone is always watching him. The adults in Tom’s life are trying to help, including his parents; the vicar next door, younger and more dashing than you d expect a vicar to be; and a therapist, Evi Oliver, who believes him more than she wants to. But there are other clues that something isn t quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom s siblings, two year old Milly and five year old Joe Fletcher, go missing in turn that the little village s evil secret turns the Fletchers dreams into a nightmare. With Sacrifice, Awakening, and now Blood Harvest, S. J. Bolton displays time and time again her remarkable talent as a beguiling storyteller, a master of thrills, and the mistress of her own brand of modern Gothic tale.

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