{{short description|British author}} {{Use British English|date=July 2020}} '''Sharon J. Bolton''' is a British author of mystery fiction who has also been published under the name '''S. J. Bolton'''.<ref>[http://www.sjbolton.com/blog.php?id=132 I’m Coming Out] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008184429/http://www.sjbolton.com/blog.php?id=132 |date=2014-10-08}}, S.J. Bolton Blogpost, 11/4/13</ref>
==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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bolton's Craftsman trilogy optioned for TV |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/rights/boltons-craftsman-optioned-tv-producers-killing-eve-874336 |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=The Bookseller |language=En}}</ref>
==Awards== Bolton's second novel, ''Awakening'', won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cannon |first=Peter |title=A Good Night for Minotaur at the Edgars |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com:443/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/43013-a-good-night-for-minotaur-at-the-edgars.html |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Publishers Weekly |language=en}}</ref> ''Blood Harvest'', her third book, was shortlisted for the 2010 Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) Gold Dagger.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blood Harvest |url=https://thecwa.co.uk/past-winners/blood-harvest/ |access-date=2024-10-04 |website=Crime Writers' Association |language=en}}</ref> In 2014, she won the CWA's Dagger in the Library award for her body of work.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Farrington |first=Joshua |date=Dec 5, 2014 |title=Bolton wins CWA Dagger in the Library prize |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/bolton-wins-cwa-dagger-library-prize |website=The Bookseller}}</ref>
==Biblio==
===''Lacey Flint''=== ====Novels==== # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Now You See Me | year = 2011 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593064139}} # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Dead Scared | year = 2012 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593064153}} # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Like This, for Ever | year = 2013 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593069165}}{{Ref|Alpha|A}} # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = A Dark and Twisted Tide | year = 2014 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593069189}} # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Dark | year = 2022 | publisher = Orion | isbn = 9781409198345}} ====Novellas==== :1.5 {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = If Snow Hadn't Fallen | year = 2012 | publisher = Transworld | isbn = 9781448168408}}{{Ref|Beta|B}} :4.5 {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Here Be Dragons | year = 2016 | publisher = Transworld Digital | isbn = 9781473540477}}{{Ref|Gamma|C}}
===''The Craftsman'' Trilogy=== ====Novels==== # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Craftsman | year = 2018 | publisher = Trapeze | isbn = 9781409174110}} # {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Buried | year = 2022 | publisher = Orion | isbn = 9781409174158}}
====Novella==== :0.5 {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Alive | year = 2018 | publisher = Trapeze | isbn = 9781409179801}}{{Ref|Delta|D}}
===Other books=== * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Sacrifice | year = 2008 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593059111}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Awakening | year = 2009 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593059234}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Blood Harvest | year = 2010 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593064115}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Little Black Lies | year = 2015 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593069202}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Daisy in Chains | year = 2016 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593076316}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = Dead Woman Walking | year = 2017 | publisher = Bantam | isbn = 9780593076422}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Split | year = 2020 | publisher = Trapeze | isbn = 9781409174196}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Pact | year = 2021 | publisher = Trapeze | isbn = 9781409198307}} * {{Cite book | first = Sharon | last = Bolton | author-mask = 2 | title = The Fake Wife | year = 2023 | publisher = Orion | isbn = 9781398709812}}
=== Notes === :{{note|Alpha|A}} (in the US, ''Like This, for Ever'' was known as ''Lost'' and was published by Minotaur) :{{note|Beta|B}} takes place after ''Now You See Me'' :{{note|Gamma|C}} takes place after ''A Dark and Twisted Tide'' :{{Note|Delta|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.<ref>Glenn Kenny for The New York Times. April 28, 2016 [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/movies/sacrifice-review.html?_r=0 Review: ‘Sacrifice’ Yields Corpses and Clichés]</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
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