Sharon Bolton Explained

Sharon J. Bolton is a British author of mystery fiction who has also been published under the name S. J. Bolton.[1]

Works

Bolton is the author of ten novels, including the Lacey Flint series of police procedural novels. Lacey Flint is a female detective constable with London's Metropolitan police. They've released five novels and two novellas detailing her investigations.

A planned trilogy starting with The Craftsman (2018) has been optioned for a television series.[2]

Awards

Bolton's second novel, Awakening, won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award.[3] Blood Harvest, her third book, was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) Gold Dagger.[4] In 2014, she won the CWA's Dagger in the Library award for her body of work.[5]

Biblio

Lacey Flint

Novels

  1. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . Now You See Me . 2011 . Bantam . 9780593064139.
  2. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . Dead Scared . 2012 . Bantam . 9780593064153.
  3. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . Like This, for Ever . 2013 . Bantam . 9780593069165.
  4. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . A Dark and Twisted Tide . 2014 . Bantam . 9780593069189.
  5. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . The Dark . 2022 . Orion . 9781409198345.

Novellas

1.5 Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . If Snow Hadn't Fallen . 2012 . Transworld . 9781448168408.

4.5 Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . Here Be Dragons . 2016 . Transworld Digital . 9781473540477.

The Craftsman Trilogy

Novels

  1. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . The Craftsman . 2018 . Trapeze . 9781409174110.
  2. Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . The Buried . 2022 . Orion . 9781409174158.

Novella

0.5 Book: Bolton, Sharon . 2 . Alive . 2018 . Trapeze . 9781409179801.

Other books

Notes

(in the US, Like This, for Ever was known as Lost and was published by Minotaur)

takes place after Now You See Me

takes place after A Dark and Twisted Tide

takes place before the first two novels. a third planned novel has not been published.

Adaptions

In 2016, the motion picture of Sacrifice, starring Radha Mitchell and Rupert Graves, and directed by Peter A. Dowling, was released by Luminous Pictures.[6]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.sjbolton.com/blog.php?id=132 I’m Coming Out
  2. Web site: Bolton's Craftsman trilogy optioned for TV . 2024-10-04 . The Bookseller . En.
  3. Web site: Cannon . Peter . A Good Night for Minotaur at the Edgars . 2024-10-04 . Publishers Weekly . en.
  4. Web site: Blood Harvest . 2024-10-04 . Crime Writers' Association . en.
  5. Web site: Farrington . Joshua . Dec 5, 2014 . Bolton wins CWA Dagger in the Library prize . The Bookseller.
  6. Glenn Kenny for The New York Times. April 28, 2016 Review: ‘Sacrifice’ Yields Corpses and Clichés

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