THE CRAFTSMAN
Book ID/图书代码: 12751017C00002
English Summary/英文概要: Catching him will make her career - and change her forever.
August, 1999
On the hottest day of the year, Assistant Commissioner Florence Lovelady attends the funeral of Larry Glassbrook, the convicted murderer she arrested thirty years earlier. A master carpenter and funeral director, Larry imprisoned his victims, alive, in the caskets he made himself. Clay effigies found entombed with their bodies suggested a motive beyond the worst human depravity.
June, 1969
13-year- old Patsy Wood has been missing for two days, the third teenager to disappear in as many months. New to the Lancashire police force and struggling to fit in, WPC Lovelady is sent to investigate an unlikely report from school children claiming to have heard a voice calling for help. A voice from deep within a recent grave.
August, 1999
As she tries to lay her ghosts to rest, Florence is drawn back to the Glassbrooks’ old house, in the shadow of Pendle Hill, where she once lodged with the family. She is chilled by the discovery of another effigy - one bearing a remarkable resemblance to herself. Is the killer still at large? Is Florence once again in terrible danger? Or, this time, could the fate in store be worse than even her darkest imaginings?
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 抓住这个男人将可能是改变她命运,唯一的使命。
1999年 秋
一年中最炎热的这天,警务处助理处长Florence Lovelady参加了曾在三十年前抓获的杀人犯,Larry Glassbrook的葬礼。一个木匠和丧葬承办人,Larry囚禁了受害人,在他自制的棺木里。他们在尸体粘土肖像上的发现,预示着这是一起非人性的可怕邪恶动机。
1969年 6月
13岁的Patsy Wood已失踪两天,这是几个月以来第三起失踪少年案。新来到兰开夏郡的警察努力想要侦破此案,女警Lovelady被派去调查这起,学校的孩子们声称好像听见,一个来自最近坟墓深处的声音呼救声的案件。
1999年 秋
当她试图让她的鬼魂安息的时候,Florence又回到了彭德尔山脚下,她曾经和家人一起居住过的Glassbrooks老宅。她惊愕地发现了,另一幅与她有着惊人的相似之处的画像。难道这个凶手还在逍遥法外?难道Florence又再次陷入危险之中?或这一次,注定的命运将超出她黑暗的想象力?(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况:“Bolton raises the bar with each new book.”--Mick Herron
CWA Gold Dagger Winner
“Sharon is a master of her craft. The Craftsman is an absolutely terrific crime novel that takes your darkest fear and makes it reality.”--Elly Griffiths
Mary Higgins Clark Award Winner
“The Craftsman is a brilliant blend of rich crime thriller with a hint of the gothic. Dark, disturbing and with women who totally rock… Buy it. Read it. Tell your friends.”--Sarah Pinborough
British Fantasy Award Winner
“I found it utterly terrifying and gripping. I loved the way (one’s) allegiances switch back and forth; and how shaky the ground feels at every step of the way.”--Sabine Durrant
Bestselling author and journalist
“Grisly and compelling. I was so pleased to hear it’s the start of a new series as it’s top notch.”--Sarah Hilary
Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award Winner
“Darkly gothic and brilliantly original, The Craftsman will have you spellbound. From the very first pages, you know you’re in the hands of a master craftswoman.”--JP Delaney
Author of The Girl Before – the UK bestseller of Spring 2017
“I was obsessed with The Craftsman, reading it every snatched moment I could. Pitch-perfect creepiness, air-punching female empowerment and sinister mysteries kept me hooked to the very last page.”--Holly Seddon
Author of the bestselling Try Not To Breathe
“The Craftsman is one of those rare books that hooked me on page one, and didn’t let go until the final sentence. Engaging, compulsive reading. Sharon Bolton at her best.”--Rachel Abbott
Number 1 Kindle Bestseller
“Just finished The Craftsman and it is Sharon Bolton at her absolute finest. Beautifully dark and disturbing, I won’t sleep well tonight."--Jenny Blackhurst
Number 1 Kindle Bestseller
About the Author/作者介绍: Sharon (formerly S J) Bolton grew up in a cotton-mill town in Lancashire and had an eclectic early career in marketing and public relations. She gave it up in 2000 to become a mother and a writer.
Her first novel, 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, Lost, (UK title, Like This, For Ever) was named RT Magazine’s Best Contemporary Thriller in the US, and in France, Now You See Me won the Plume de Bronze. That same year, Sharon was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library, for her entire body of work. In 2016, Little Black Lies won the Dead Good award for the best twist.
She has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold 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.
With ten books to her name, Sharon is a Sunday Times bestselling author and has been described by a reviewer for that newspaper as being ’unable to write a sentence not suffused with menace.’
Sacrifice has been made into a Hollywood film starring Radha Mitchell, Rupert Graves and David Robb. Little Black Lies and the Lacey Flint series have been optioned for TV.
Sharon lives with her family of four, one of whom is a food-stealing, rabbit-chasing lurcher, in the Chiltern Hills, not far from Oxford.
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