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If Snow Hadn't Fallen

If Snow Hadn't Fallen

  • A Lacey Flint Short Story

'Bolton knows precisely how to ratchet up the tension and tell a cracking story' - GUARDIAN

They say that snow covers everything that is mean and sordid and ugly in the world...but beneath the carpet of white, the ugliness remains.

11 November 2012, London. Long-smouldering feelings come to a head in a burst of shocking violence. A young Muslim man is brutally murdered by a masked gang.

There is just one witness to the horrific crime: DC Lacey Flint. Or at least that's what she thinks...

Reviews

  • If you only read one crime novel this year, make it this

    Tess Gerritsen

  • Spine-tingling suspense!

    Lisa Gardner

  • A darling of the crime fiction world, S J Bolton's thriller is terse, unflinching and one you might think twice about reading before bed

    Stylist Magazine

  • Mesmerising

    The Times

  • Treading a fine line between horror and thriller ... seriously rich yet relentlessly disturbing

    Daily Mirror

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About the Author

Sharon Bolton

Sharon Bolton (previously S. J. Bolton) is the critically acclaimed author of some of the most bone-chilling crime books ever written. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. In 2014 she won the CWA Dagger in the Library for her whole body of work. Sharon lives near Oxford with her husband and young son.

Sharon Bolton

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Features

Sharon Bolton on Lacey Flint

You wouldn't want to get too close to Police Sergeant Lacey Flint in real life - but she's an endlessly fascinating heroine, Bolton writes

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