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Lacey Flint Series

Now You See Me

Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

Despite her life-long fascination with Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case or seen a corpse up close. Until now … As she arrives at her car one evening, Lacey is horrified to find a woman slumped over the door. She has been brutally stabbed, and dies in Lacey’s arms. Thrown headlong into her first murder hunt, Lacey will stop at nothing to find this savage killer. But her big case will also be the start of a very personal nightmare. When Lacey receives a familiar letter, written in blood, pre-fixed Dear Boss, and hand delivered, it is clear that a Ripper copycat is at large. And one who is fixated on Lacey…

“NOW YOU SEE ME is really special: multi-layered and sophisticated, but tough, too – like being hit in the face with a Swiss watch.”

Lee Child

If Snow Hadn’t Fallen

A Lacey Flint Short Story

‘Bolton knows precisely how to ratchet up the tension and tell a cracking story’ – GUARDIAN They say that snow covers everything that is mean and sordid and ugly in the world…but beneath the carpet of white, the ugliness remains. London. A few weeks before Christmas. Long-smouldering feelings come to a head in a burst of shocking violence. A young Muslim man is brutally murdered by a masked gang. There is just one witness to the horrific crime: DC Lacey Flint. Or at least that’s what she thinks…

Dead Scared

Lacey Flint Series, Book 2

When a Cambridge university student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realizes that the university has developed an unhealthy record of young people committing suicide in extraordinary ways. Despite huge personal misgivings, Joesbury sends young policewoman DC Lacey Flint to Cambridge with a brief to work undercover, posing as a vulnerable, depression-prone student. Psychiatrist Evi Oliver is the only person in Cambridge who knows who Lacey really is – or so they both hope. But as the two women dig deeper into the darker side of university life, they discover a terrifying trend… And when Lacey starts experiencing the same disturbing nightmares reported by the dead girls, she knows that she is next.

“With five successful thrillers under her belt, S J Bolton is hot property in crime fiction right now.”

Stylist Magazine

Like This, For Ever

Lacey Flint Series, Book 3

Twelve-year-old Barney Roberts is obsessed with a series of murders. He knows the victims are all boys, just like him. He knows the bodies were found on river banks nearby. And he’s sure the killer will strike again soon. But there’s something else, a secret he’d rather not know, a secret he is too scared to share . . . And who would believe a twelve-year-old boy anyway? Like This, For Ever is a twisty, addictive, up-all-night thriller from a writer who loves nothing more than to play with your mind. LIKE THIS, FOR EVER is published as LOST in the US

"SJ. (now Sharon) Bolton’s frisson-generating Blood Harvest gleaned her many followers and she is at her best with a dark psychological crime narrative, as here. Barney’s childhood has been less than ideal – he has a direct line to a killer, one who is likely to strike again. The victim is likely to be another boy – a boy, in fact, just like Barney; it will be a body drained of blood and left on a beach by the Thames. But will detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury be up to this case? Typically gripping fare from the reliable Bolton."

Barry Forshaw – Good Book Guide, January 2014

A Dark and Twisted Tide

Lacey Flint Series, Book 4

Police sergeant Lacey Flint thinks she’s safe. She thinks her new job with the river police, and her new life on a house boat, will keep her away from danger. But she’s wrong. When Lacey discovers a body in the water, and sinister offerings appear in her home, she fears someone is trying to expose her darkest secret. And the river is the last place she should be.

"Bolton is a gripping storyteller, with fine, haunted characters."

Peter James

Here Be Dragons

A Lacey Flint Short Story

There must be a thousand people in the vicinity of Westminster Bridge on this beautiful evening . . . in approximately thirty minutes’ time, many of them will be dead. Mark Joesbury, of Scotland Yard’s Covert Operations Unit, is undercover. Embroiled in a terrorist gang’s plans for a deadly attack at the heart of the capital, he’s risking everything to stop them. But as they prepare to target London’s most iconic landmarks, it’s no longer just countless strangers he’s fighting to save. Because they’ve also got the woman he loves, DC Lacey Flint…

The Dark

Lacey Flint Series, Book 5

When a baby is snatched from its pram and cast into the river Thames, off-duty police officer Lacey Flint is there to prevent disaster. DCI Mark Joesbury has been expecting this. Monitoring a complex network of ‘dark web’ sites, Joesbury and his team have spotted a new terrorist threat from the extremist, women hating group known as ‘incels’ or ‘involuntary celibates’. Joesbury’s team are trying to infiltrate the ring of power at its core, but the dark web is built for anonymity, and the incel army is vast. Pressure mounts when the team learn the snatched baby incident is just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to…

"‘WHAT A BOOK! I absolutely loved every minute of it. I love everything Sharon writes, but she has excelled herself. Not only was it a very clever story with truly brilliant characters, but it was so relevant to today."

Rachel Abbott