Лучшие книги 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,…

Лэйси возвращалась домой, когда на ее машину упала окровавленная женщина. Она стала первой жертвой маньяка, решившего повторить путь самого известного лондонского убийцы. Преступник уверен, что ему ничего не грозит, в своих письмах он насмехается над полицией и рассказывает, как будет наслаждаться мучениями своих несчастных жертв. Для каждой он уже подготовил особый нож и назначил дату смерти... И лишь когда от его руки погибают еще две женщины, становится понятно, что своих жертв маньяк выбирает совсем не случайно. Все они связаны старой тайной...

Врач-гинеколог Тора Гутри обнаруживает на лугу за своим домом захоронение неизвестной женщины, у которой аккуратно вырезано сердце. Вскрытие показывает, что за несколько дней до смерти женщина родила ребенка и даже кормила его грудью. Кто эта незнакомка? Почему ее никто не ищет? Где новорожденный? И что за странные символы вырезаны на теле у умершей? В поисках ответов на эти вопросы герои отправляются в мир нечеловеческих страданий и немыслимой жестокости...

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.

Семья переезжает в небольшой городок, и с первых дней понимает, что им не рады. Тому кажется, что за ним кто-то наблюдает, а его брат и сестра общаются с... призраком. Тайны городка превращают их жизнь в кошмар. Зачем жители проводят пугающие ритуалы? Почему в чаше для причастия оказалась кровь? Священник Гарри и психиатр Эви пытаются разобраться в происходящем и узнают, что за несколько лет здесь погибли три девочки. Исчезает еще один ребенок. Им нужно успеть спасти его!

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 …

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.

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.

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 reopened... it gets personal.

In master of suspense Sharon Bolton's latest thriller, readers will find a page-turner to confirm their deepest fears and the only protagonist who can face them.

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 . . .

Nail-biting!' TESS GERRITSEN 'Spine-tingling!' LISA GARDNER 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. 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 published as LOST in the US*

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…

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.

11 November 2012, London. 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...

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?

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...

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.

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