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S. J. Bolton

    1 janvier 1960

    Cette auteure crée des thrillers psychologiques captivants qui explorent les aspects les plus sombres de la psyché humaine. Ses récits sont pleins de suspense, présentant souvent des rebondissements inattendus qui tiennent les lecteurs en haleine. Elle se concentre sur les motivations des personnages et leurs désirs cachés. Son style d'écriture est réputé pour être captivant et atmosphérique.

    S. J. Bolton
    The Dark
    A Dark and Twisted Tide
    Dead Scared
    Now You See Me
    Like This, for Ever
    Venin
    • Vétérinaire dans un petit village anglais, Clara est jeune, brillante et passionnée par son métier. Elle vit cependant comme une recluse : défigurée par un terrible accident alors qu'elle était enfant, elle préfère la compagnie des animaux à celle des hommes. Une existence solitaire bientôt troublée par la visite de la police, venue solliciter son expertise. Un homme, portant une trace de morsure de serpent, vient d'être retrouvé inanimé à son domicile. Le verdict est sans appel : la dose de venin présente dans le corps est bien supérieure à celle que peut laisser n'importe quel reptile...

      Venin
    • Like This, for Ever

      • 391pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,6(558)Évaluer

      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.

      Like This, for Ever
    • DC Lacey Flint, fascinated by Jack the Ripper, has never handled a murder case until she discovers a severely injured woman who dies in her arms. Shortly after, she receives a letter addressed 'Dear Boss,' revealing that a copycat killer is imitating Ripper's crimes and has become dangerously fixated on her.

      Now You See Me
    • Dead Scared

      • 378pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,5(832)Évaluer

      When a Cambridge student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realises that the university has developed an unhealthy record of young people committing suicide in extraordinary ways. Against huge personal misgivings, Joesbury sends young policewoman DC Lacey Flint to investigate.

      Dead Scared
    • A Dark and Twisted Tide

      • 528pages
      • 19 heures de lecture
      4,3(423)Évaluer

      'Bolton is a gripping storyteller, with fine, haunted characters' PETER JAMES Police sergeant Lacey Flint thinks she's safe. She thinks her new job with the river police, and her new life on a house boat, will keep her away from danger. But she's wrong. When Lacey discovers a body in the water, and sinister offerings appear in her home, she fears someone is trying to expose her darkest secret. And the river is the last place she should be.

      A Dark and Twisted Tide
    • 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...

      The Dark
    • There are clues that something isn't quite right in Heptonclough, including the mysterious accidental deaths of three toddlers over the last ten years. It is not until Tom's siblings, two-year-old Milly and five-year-old Joe, go missing in turn that the little village's evil secret turns the Fletchers' dreams into a nightmare.

      Blood Harvest
    • Sacrifice

      • 416pages
      • 15 heures de lecture
      4,3(579)Évaluer

      'One of the best thrillers ever' SOPHIE HANNAH Consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton has moved to remote Shetland to be with her husband. To have a family. Not for this . . . In the peat soil near her new home she uncovers a perfectly preserved womanâe(tm)s body. Runic symbols are carved into her skin. Her heart has been cut out. But as Tora begins to ask questions around the island, she receives her first threat . . .

      Sacrifice
    • Dead Woman Walking

      • 450pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      4,2(778)Évaluer

      Bolton never lets the tension drop. Indeed it is her ability to convey creeping dread that marks out her exceptional talent as a story-teller... For once, the description 'impossible to put down' is fully merited, for this is an absolute page-turner. Geoffrey Wansell Daily Mail 20170421

      Dead Woman Walking
    • The gripping, shocking thriller sensation that reads like a TV boxset from the million-copies sold author Sharon Bolton

      The Fake Wife