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Award-winning writer Sharon Bolton is back with her most gripping, suspenseful and chilling novel yet.

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Optioned for television by the hit team behind KILLING EVE.

´Filled with intrigue and suspense. The Craftsman is spellbinding.´ - Clare Mackintosh

´Sharon Bolton at her absolute finest. Beautifully dark and disturbing.´ - Jenny Blackhurst

´Darkly gothic and brilliantly original, The Craftsman will have you spellbound.´ - JP Delaney

´An absolutely terrific crime novel that takes your darkest fear and makes it reality.´ - Elly Griffiths

Devoted father or merciless killer?

His secrets are buried with him.
Florence Lovelady´s career was made when she convicted coffin-maker Larry Glassbrook of a series of child murders 30 years ago. Like something from our worst nightmares the victims were buried...ALIVE.
Larry confessed to the crimes; it was an open and shut case. But now he´s dead, and events from the past start to repeat themselves.
Did she get it wrong all those years ago?
Or is there something much darker at play?

Praise for The Craftsman
´Grisly and comeplling.´ - Sarah Hilary

´Utterly terrifying and gripping.´ - Sabine Durrant, author of TAKE ME IN

´An original, dark, and twisted tale and the words just sparkle on the page.´ - Niki Mackay

´I dare you to read it after dark. The Craftsman is a blood-chilling thriller that will cast a spell on you.´ - Mark Edwards,No.1 Kindle bestseller

´Fabulous, utterly unique storyline, that will effortlessly stand out in the crowd of thrillers. It´ll give you the creeps.´ - Helen Fields ´Pitch perfect creepiness, air punching female empowerment and sinister mysteries kept me hooked to the very last page.´ - Holly Seddon

´The Craftsman goes to some very dark places, and will have readers looking nervously over their shoulders with every page they turn.´ - Mick Herron

´A brilliant blend of rich crime thriller with a hint of the gothic. Dark, disturbing and with women who totally rock, with the Craftsman Sharon Bolton has proven herself to be a master Craftsman herself. Buy it. Read it. Tell your friends. Then sleep with the light on.´ - Sarah Pinborough

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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

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