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

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A sleek, high-stakes mystery of greed and guilt

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An intriguing and well-paced thriller

- Natasha Cooper, Literary Review

'Bolton's dazzling plot recalls Christie at her most inventive' - Sunday Times

Seven beneficiaries. Seven people who stood to gain a huge amount of money, for a reason none of them yet understood.

Seven strangers receive a mysterious note informing them of their impending inheritance of billionaire Logan Quick's fortune. They each receive a token and soon embark on a doomed cruise where they will have to conquer their own demons, and each other, for a chance at the money.

But someone on this boat has something to hide.

Can the survivors work out the truth... or are they destined to drown?

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Linked by a secret and seduced by the fortune of a billionaire, seven strangers board a ship to a remote island. Will anyone make it back to shore alive?

Product details

ISBN
9781398723108
Published
2025
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co; Orion
Weight
620 gr
Height
238 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
36 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
400

Biographical note

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.