Sharon Bolton (previously S. J. Bolton) is the critically acclaimed author of some of the most bone-chilling crime books ever written. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Dagger in the Library. This is her sixth book. Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.
Bolton rules the world of psychological thrillers -- Nina Sankovitch * Huffington Post * Ingenious * Washington Post * Nail-biting, spine-tingling, up-till-4a.m.-because-you-need-to-know-how-it-finishes tension! * fictionfan blog * Close-to-the-bone red herrings skillfully strewn across the detectives’ paths, convincing cop-shop procedure, and perceptively drawn secondary characters help push this contemporary crime novel ahead of the pack . . . Bolton looks deep into the lost-soul madness of a killer and makes her vision all too horribly real. * RT BookReviews * Bolton sets aside the gothic-tinged atmosphere of her early novels in favor of a more visceral sensibility, exerting immediate and continuing pull by stepping in and out of an unnamed killer’s mind . . . a nail-biting thriller * Publishers Weekly *