Sharon Bolton

Last updated

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

Contents

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. —— (2011). Now You See Me. Bantam. ISBN   9780593064139.
  2. —— (2012). Dead Scared. Bantam. ISBN   9780593064153.
  3. —— (2013). Like This, for Ever. Bantam. ISBN   9780593069165. A
  4. —— (2014). A Dark and Twisted Tide. Bantam. ISBN   9780593069189.
  5. —— (2022). The Dark. Orion. ISBN   9781409198345.

Novellas

1.5 —— (2012). If Snow Hadn't Fallen. Transworld. ISBN   9781448168408. B
4.5 —— (2016). Here Be Dragons. Transworld Digital. ISBN   9781473540477. C

The Craftsman Trilogy

Novels

  1. —— (2018). The Craftsman. Trapeze. ISBN   9781409174110.
  2. —— (2022). The Buried. Orion. ISBN   9781409174158.

Novella

0.5 —— (2018). Alive. Trapeze. ISBN   9781409179801. D

Other books

Notes

^A (in the US, Like This, for Ever was known as Lost and was published by Minotaur)
^B takes place after Now You See Me
^C takes place after A Dark and Twisted Tide
^D 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]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael A. Stackpole</span> Science fiction author

Michael Austin Stackpole is an American science fiction and fantasy author best known for his Star Wars and BattleTech books. He was born in Wausau, Wisconsin, but raised in Vermont. He has a BA in history from the University of Vermont. From 1977 on, he worked as a designer of role-playing games for various gaming companies, and wrote dozens of magazine articles with limited distribution within the industry. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Judith Tarr is an American fantasy and science fiction author.

Caroline (CJ) Carver is a British author who has lived in the UK and Australia.

John Harvey is a British author of crime fiction most famous for his series of jazz-influenced Charlie Resnick novels, based in the City of Nottingham. He is also a screenwriter and poet.

John Meaney is a British science fiction author.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">R. J. Ellory</span> English thriller writer

Roger Jon Ellory is an English thriller writer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Craig Russell (British author)</span> Scottish novelist, short story writer and author

Craig Russell, also known by the pseudonym Christopher Galt, is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and author of The Devil Aspect. His Hamburg-set thriller series featuring detective Jan Fabel has been translated into 23 languages. Russell speaks fluent German and has a special interest in post-war German history. His books, particularly The Devil Aspect and the Fabel series, tend to include historical or mythological themes.

Margaret Murphy is a British crime writer.

Kenneth Martin Edwards is a British crime novelist, whose work has won multiple awards including lifetime achievement awards for his fiction, non-fiction, short fiction, and scholarship in the UK and the United States. In addition to translations into various European languages, his books have been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese. As a crime fiction critic and historian, and also in his career as a solicitor, he has written non-fiction books and many articles. He is the current President of the Detection Club and in 2020 was awarded the Crime Writers' Association's Diamond Dagger, the highest honour in British crime writing, in recognition of the "sustained excellence" of his work in the genre.

Mary Diana Norman was a British author and journalist. She is best known for her historical crime fiction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adrian McKinty</span> Irish crime novelist and critic

Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, The Chain, and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Macavity Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Barry Award, the Audie Award, the Anthony Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.

The Romantic Novel of the Year Award is an award for romance novels since 1960, presented by Romantic Novelists' Association, and since 2003, the novellas, also won the Love Story of the Year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pierre Lemaitre</span> French writer (born 1951)

Pierre Lemaitre is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven.

<i>The Lock Artist</i> 2010 crime novel by Steve Hamilton

The Lock Artist is a 2010 standalone crime novel by American novelist Steve Hamilton, published by Minotaur Books. The story centers on a young man with a talent for lock picking.

This is the complete list of works by American science fiction author S. M. Stirling.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michael Grothaus</span> American novelist and journalist

Michael Grothaus is an American novelist and journalist. He is best known for the novel Beautiful Shining People and for his writing about internet subcultures in the digital age.

<i>Epiphany Jones</i> 2016 novel by Michael Grothaus

Epiphany Jones is the debut novel by Michael Grothaus published in June 2016. The novel is a literary thriller, social satire, and dark comedy about America's obsession with sex, celebrity, and the internet, which explores a pornography addict’s unwilling relationship with a woman who thinks she can speak to God and their entanglement with sex traffickers that cater to the Hollywood elite. Grothaus has stated that his personal experiences at the Cannes Film Festival and his disillusionment with the Hollywood film industry were strong inspiration for the novel.

David John Young is an English novelist whose crime thriller series featuring a fictional Volkspolizei detective, Karin Müller, is set in 1970s East Germany. Young's debut novel Stasi Child won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year. Both it and the follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre, the UK adult fiction division of the Bonnier Group, announced Young had signed a six-figure deal for three further novels in the series, making five in all, with the third, A Darker State, being published in February 2018. Young says the inspiration for the series came after his indie pop band The Candy Twins toured Germany in 2007 and he read Anna Funder's non-fiction book Stasiland between gigs. He secured the tour thanks to favourable comments made by Edwyn Collins about a tribute song Young wrote about him. Before becoming a full-time novelist, Young was a news producer and editor for more than 25 years with BBC World Service radio and BBC World TV.

List of complete works by Canadian fantasy fiction author Steven Erikson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chris Whitaker (author)</span> British author

Chris Whitaker is a British author known for his books Tall Oaks, All the Wicked Girls, We Begin at the End, and The Forevers.

References

  1. ↑ I’m Coming Out Archived 2014-10-08 at the Wayback Machine , S.J. Bolton Blogpost, 11/4/13
  2. ↑ "Bolton's Craftsman trilogy optioned for TV". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  3. ↑ Cannon, Peter. "A Good Night for Minotaur at the Edgars". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  4. ↑ "Blood Harvest". Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 2024-10-04.
  5. ↑ 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
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.