Новинки Шэрон Болтон

Роковая беспечность, трагедия - и двое детей мертвы. Ваши. Вот уже почти три года как небрежность бывшей лучшей подруги оборвала их жизни. Теперь каждая случайная встреча с этой женщиной в маленькой общине Фолклендских островов - пытка. И единственное, что пока еще дает силы существовать дальше – месть. Но совсем скоро наступит годовщина их смерти, и тогда… Пришло время уравнять счет. Осуществить самые темные мечты. Вот только реальность вносит свои коррективы: бесследно пропадает маленький мальчик. И это уже третий ребенок, исчезнувший за последние несколько лет. Полиция настаивает на том, что все произошедшее – несчастный случай. Но что,…

ONCE, SHE SAVED HIS LIFE...
NOW, HE'LL TAKE HERS.

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. But who would want to hurt a child?

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 builds when the team learn the snatched child was just the first in a series of violent attacks designed to terrorise women. Worse, the leaders of the movement seem to have singled out Lacey as the embodiment of everything they hate, placing her in terrible danger...

Just what is it that attracts some women to the most evil of men?
Daisy in Chains is the seductive, twisty, exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Sharon Bolton.
Famous killers have fan clubs.
Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. Famed for his good looks, he receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He's also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison.
Who would join such a club?
Maggie Rosie is a successful lawyer and true-crime author. Reclusive and enigmatic, she only takes on cases she can win.
Hamish is convinced that Maggie can change his fate. Maggie is determined not to get involved. She thinks she's immune to the charms of such a man. But maybe not this time . . .
Would you?

Я спрашивала себя: способна ли я убить? Спрашивала – и, похоже, получила ответ. Мне не трудно убить. Более того, у меня неплохо получается. Роковая беспечность, трагедия – и двое детей мертвы. Ваши. Вот уже почти три года как небрежность бывшей лучшей подруги оборвала их жизни. Теперь каждая случайная встреча с этой женщиной в маленькой общине Фолклендских островов – пытка. И единственное, что пока еще дает силы существовать дальше – месть. Но совсем скоро наступит годовщина их смерти, и тогда… Пришло время уравнять счет. Осуществить самые темные мечты. Вот только реальность вносит свои коррективы: бесследно пропадает маленький мальчик. И…

Роковая беспечность, трагедия - и двое детей мертвы. Ваши. Вот уже почти три года как небрежность бывшей лучшей подруги оборвала их жизни. Теперь каждая случайная встреча с этой женщиной в маленькой общине Фолклендских островов - пытка. И единственное, что пока еще дает силы существовать дальше – месть. Но совсем скоро наступит годовщина их смерти, и тогда… Пришло время уравнять счет. Осуществить самые темные мечты. Вот только реальность вносит свои коррективы: бесследно пропадает маленький мальчик. И это уже третий ребенок, исчезнувший за последние несколько лет. Полиция настаивает на том, что все произошедшее – несчастный случай. Но что, если это не так? Что, если на самом деле среди горожан затаился монстр? И что, если всё указывает на то, что монстр этот – именно вы?

A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.

18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison.

Twenty years later Megan is free.
Let the games begin . . .

Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton is back, with her twistiest thriller yet.

Tense, gripping and with a twist you won't see coming, Sharon Bolton is back in an explosive new standalone thriller about a woman on the run in The Split.

No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you...

The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer – which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd.

Felicity lives in fear – fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won’t give up until he finds her.

But a doctor delving into the background of Felicity and Freddie's relationship, back in Cambridge, learns that Felicity has been on the edge for a long time. Heading to South Georgia himself to try and get to her first is the only way he can think of to help her.

Helt avgörande för Florence Loveladys lysande karriär som polis, var när hon grep kistmakaren Larry Glassbrook. Det är nu trettio år sedan han dömdes för en serie barnamord, som ur våra värsta mardrömmar. Offren begravdes levande. Larry erkände morden; fallet var lika enkelt som det var spektakulärt. Nu är han död. Ändå har saker från det förflutna börjat upprepa sig på fasaväckande vis. Hade hon helt fel den där gången för många år sedan? Eller är någonting helt annat, ännu mörkare på spel? Sharon Bolton är tillbaka med en gnistrande välskriven gotisk thriller: Hantverkaren [The Craftsman]. En av årets på förhand mest hyllade…

Florence Lovelady's career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Grassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago in a small village in Lancashire. Like something out of a nightmare, the victims were buried alive. Florence was able to solve the mystery and get a confession out of Larry before more children were murdered., and he spent the rest of his life in prison. But now, decades later, he's dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves. Is someone copying the original murders? Or did she get it wrong all those years ago? When her own son goes missing under similar circumstances, the case not only gets…

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, thirteen passengers on a hot-air balloon flight witness a brutal murder. Within the next hour, all but one of them will be dead.

Alone, scared and trusting no-one, she flees for her life, running to the one place she feels safe. But she's seen the killer's face, and he's seen hers - and he won't rest until he's eliminated the last witness to his crime . . .

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…

What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you?
Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident - and two children are dead. Yours.
Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost - your family, your future, your sanity.
How long before revenge becomes irresistible?
With no reason to go on living, why shouldn't you turn your darkest thoughts into deeds?
So now, what's the worst thing you can do to your best friend?
'A dark and haunting thriller. It creeps under your skin and doesn't let you go' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

Famous killers have fan clubs.

Hamish Wolfe is charming, magnetic and very persuasive. Famed for his good looks, he receives adoring letters every day from his countless admirers. He's also a convicted murderer, facing life in prison.

Who would join such a club?

Maggie Rosie is a successful lawyer and true-crime author. Reclusive and enigmatic, she only takes on cases she can win. Hamish is convinced that Maggie can change his fate. Maggie is determined not to get involved. She thinks she's immune to the charms of such a man. But maybe not this time...

Would you?

He’s a serial killer. A murderer of young women, all killed in brutal attacks.

But despite Hamish Wolfe’s conviction, he’s always stuck to his story―he’s innocent and he’s been wrongly imprisoned. And now he wants someone to investigate and, more importantly, to write his story.

Maggie Rose is a notorious defense attorney and writer whose specialty is getting convictions overturned. At first, Maggie is reluctant to even acknowledge Hamish’s requests to meet, ignoring his letters. But this is a very charismatic and persuasive man, good-looking and intelligent.

Eventually even she can’t resist his lure…

Er ist ein Serienkiller. Er hat vier junge Frauen brutal ermordet. Doch auch nach seiner Verurteilung beteuert er noch immer seine Unschuld. Nun sucht er jemanden, der seinen Fall neu aufrollt. Jemanden, der seine Geschichte erzählt. Damit die Wahrheit ans Licht kommt. Maggie Rose könnte das. Doch die erfolgreiche Rechtsanwältin und True-Crime-Autorin zögert. Sie widersetzt sich seinen Bitten, antwortet nicht auf seine Briefe aus dem Gefängnis. Dabei ist er ein charismatischer und erfolgsverwöhnter Mann, gutaussehend und intelligent. Wie lange wird Maggie ihm noch widerstehen können? Denn insgeheim hat sie längst damit begonnen, seine Geschichte aufzuschreiben …

Ветеринар Клара Беннинг, лицо которой обезображено в результате несчастного случая в детстве, рассчитывает спрятаться от всего мира в глухом английском поселке. Однако здесь происходят жуткие события — в домах обнаруживают ядовитых змей, гибнут люди. Клара становится главной подозреваемой и вынуждена начать собственное расследование. Тайны прошлого сплелись в «змеиный клубок», и распутать его будет непросто.

What's the worst thing your best friend could do to you? Admittedly, it wasn't murder. A moment's carelessness, a tragic accident - and two children are dead. Yours. Living in a small island community, you can't escape the woman who destroyed your life. Each chance encounter is an agonizing reminder of what you've lost—your family, your future, your sanity. How long before revenge becomes irresistible? With no reason to go on living, why shouldn't you turn your darkest thoughts into deeds?

Lacey Flint, Sharon Bolton's enigmatic protagonist, has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friends' better judgment, she's taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels closer than ever to Detective Mark Joesbury, despite his involvement in a complicated undercover case. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy.

Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chance―after all, she's recently joined the marine policing unit, and she knows how many dead bodies are pulled out of the river every year, most the result of tragic accidents. But further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the woman's body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Lacey's no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, she's inexorably drawn into the investigation.

Award-winning author Sharon Bolton has once again crafted a tightly plotted, utterly unpredictable thriller around one of the most compelling characters in crime fiction today, intensely private London police officer Lacey Flint, whose penchant for keeping secrets is only matched by her determination to uncover those of others.

A cracking story' Guardian You know that feeling? The one that makes you want to glance over your shoulder? All Clara Benning wants is a peaceful life asa wildlife vet, and to hide her disfigurement from the world. But now she doesn’t have a choice. Because a man has died from a suspicious snake bite, and Clara’s concern leads her to the abandoned house at the end of the lane, and an unspeakable tragedy that occured half a century ago.

Bolton is hot property in crime fiction right now' Stylist Magazine 'Mesmerising' The Times A series of suicides. Each one a female university student. Each one more horrifying than the last. The police know it cannot be coincidence. But they can’t prove it. They need someone to go undercover. A young policewoman, as vulnerable as the others. As unprepared for the nightmare that will greet her. Watch your back, Lacey Flint . . .