Sharon Bolton
1) Alive
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English
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A gripping and unsettling short story set in the world of The Craftsman, from bestseller Sharon Bolton
A dark moon is rising. A perfect black circle, barely visible in the night sky, the dark moon casts its void over the wind-scorched moor, over the soaring mass of a great limestone hill, and over the town that cowers in its shadow. The dark moon is the absence of moon before the slender silver crescent of the new moon appears again and people can...
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English
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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...
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English
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Just weeks ago, a Jack the Ripper copycat terrorized London, leaving London police officer Lacey Flint scarred both physically and emotionally. Still recovering from the ordeal and technically off-duty, Lacey almost ignores it when she hears a call for back-up as she's heading home. But, she's close by and figures they could use her help. She could never have expected the horrible crime she would witness on arriving at the scene, or the frightening...
4) Awakening
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Disfigured by a childhood accident, veterinary surgeon Clara Benning generally prefers the company of animals to people. But when a local man dies following a supposed snakebite, Cara's expertise is needed. She's chilled to learn that the victim's postmortem shows a higher concentration of venom than could ever be found in a single snake--and therefore the killer must be human.
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Lacey Flint novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
395 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Stumbling onto a murder scene that a reporter likens to the crimes of Jack the Ripper, young detective constable Lacey Flint races against time to prevent additional deaths and realizes that the killer is taunting her with secrets from her past.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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365 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Catrin Quinn's job at Falkland Conservation is to protect the sea life in the Falklands' fragile ecology. Why would her goal, her passion, lie in nursing a plan to kill her former best friend, Rachel Grimwood?
"In such a small community as the Falkland Islands, a missing child is unheard of. In such a dangerous landscape it can only be a terrible tragedy, surely... When another child goes missing, and then a third, it's no longer possible to believe...
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"Sharon Bolton returns with her creepiest standalone yet, following a young cop trying to trace the disappearances of a small town's teenagers. 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...
8) Dead scared
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Lacey Flint novels volume 2
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
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378 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Going undercover as a vulnerable college student when a suspicious rash of suicides occurs at Cambridge University, DC Lacey Flint finds her tragic past and insecurities rendering her a more susceptible target than she realized.
9) The split
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages
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English
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"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...
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Lacey Flint novels volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Now living in a houseboat on the River Thames, Lacey Flint is becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. But at dawn one hot summer morning, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the river. She assumes it was chance--after all she's recently joined the marine policing unit--but further investigation leads her team to suspect it was deliberately left for her to find. She is no longer a detective, but as she begins...
11) Lost
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Lacey Flint novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Eleven-year-old Barney has been on a quest to find his mother since she left when Barney was just a toddler. But everything changes when children about Barney's age--and all from the same neighborhood where he lives--start disappearing and turning up gruesomely murdered.
12) The buried
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Craftsman volume 2
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Florence Lovelady, the most senior serving policewoman in Britain, visits convicted serial killer Larry Glassbrook in prison. Larry is coming to the end of his life but has one last task for Florence: to learn the identity of the remains discovered at children's home Black Moss Manor. The town Florence escaped narrowly with her life still holds many secrets. Will she finally learn the truth? Or will time run out for her first?
13) The pact
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Trapeze
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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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.
14) The dark
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Orion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"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?" -- inside cover.