The Token

Propulsive … buckle up for some high-stakes drama * Guardian *
Outstanding … Bolton’s dazzling plot recalls Christie at her most inventive * Sunday Times *
Delicious and compelling … Bolton conjures up a very Traitors style feeling of menace in this original and tensely told tale * Daily Mail *
A sleek, high-stakes mystery of greed and guilt * The i paper *
An intriguing and well-paced thriller which raises interesting issues of right, wrong and responsibility * Literary Review *
This mystery reveals its cunning twists slowly * Crime Monthly *
Full of jaw-dropping twists * that’s life *
Bolton’s dazzling plot recalls Christie at her most inventive * Sunday Times *
Expertly constructed (…) high-stakes drama * Guardian *
This mystery reveals its cunning twists slowly – Lisa Howells * Crime Monthly *
A sleek, high-stakes mystery of greed and guilt * i Paper *
An intriguing and well-paced thriller – Natasha Cooper * Literary Review *

Sharon (formerly S J) Bolton lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband and, occasionally, her grown up son and is working on her eighteenth novel; her eighth with Orion.

Her first book, Sacrifice, was voted Best New Read by Amazon.uk, whilst her second, Awakening, won the 2010 Mary Higgins Clark Award (part of the prestigious Edgars) in the US. In 2014, she won the CWA Dagger in the Library. She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, the CWA Steel Dagger, the Theakston’s Prize for Best Thriller, the International Thriller Writers’ Best First Novel award, the Prix Du Polar in France and the Martin Beck award in Sweden.

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