Sharon Bolton
Sharon Bolton is an internationally acclaimed thriller writer, winner of the Amazon ‘Rising Stars’ Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award (US), and nominee for the International Thriller Writers’ Best First Novel Award, the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Gold Dagger, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and Twisted Dagger Awards, Theakstons’ Crime Novel of the Year Award (twice), and the Barry Award (US), among others. In 2014 Sharon was awarded CWA’s Dagger in the Library for her whole body of work.
Her very popular Lacey Flint series features one of crime fiction’s most memorable police-officer heroines, and currently comprises 5 novels and several novellas/short stories.
Equally impressive are her stand-alone thrillers: Sacrifice, Awakening, Blood Harvest, Little Black Lies, Daisy in Chains and Dead Woman Walking. (All published by Penguin Random House).
The Craftsman and The Buried are dark, haunting stories featuring police detective Florence Lovelady. The stand-alone novel The Split is a compelling psychological drama, set partly on the bleakly beautiful Antarctic island of South Georgia. The Pact is an outstanding thriller in which six 18-yr-old friends with glittering futures ahead of them cause a fatal car crash. Sharon’s most recent thrillers are The Fake Wife , The Neighbour’s Secret and The Token. (All published by Orion.) The Token, published in November 2025, has been chosen as one of the Sunday Times’ Best Crime Novels of the Year.
