From the three of her novels that I have read, Sharon Bolton has two notable talents that makes her an author to cherish.
First, she writes very engagingly about settings "on the edge", remote places where communities of hardy souls have got on with their lives, far from the center of their societies, for hundreds, even thousands of years. They make, or grow, or acquire everything they need to live full, civilized lives, but they are always on the edge, remote from the conveniences and the hustle that mainlanders take for granted. If you'd like to get a sense of what it would be like to live on one of the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, or as in this novel, the Falkland Islands, You could do worse that immerse yourself for a little while in one of Bolton's novels.
Bolton's second notable talent is that she manages to come up with, maintain and carry through plots that are real crackers: creepy, and mysterious, where the peril to her characters doesn't require them to have been lobotomised at some unmentioned point in the past. (Oh, I think I'll just go down in to that dark abandoned basement. No one knows I'm here, so I have lots of time to explore ...) As in this novel, the situation is intriguing from the start, develops nicely, and comes to a satisfying, yet unforeseen conclusion -- you can't say that about every thriller writers.
First, she writes very engagingly about settings "on the edge", remote places where communities of hardy souls have got on with their lives, far from the center of their societies, for hundreds, even thousands of years. They make, or grow, or acquire everything they need to live full, civilized lives, but they are always on the edge, remote from the conveniences and the hustle that mainlanders take for granted. If you'd like to get a sense of what it would be like to live on one of the Shetland Islands, the Orkneys, or as in this novel, the Falkland Islands, You could do worse that immerse yourself for a little while in one of Bolton's novels.
Bolton's second notable talent is that she manages to come up with, maintain and carry through plots that are real crackers: creepy, and mysterious, where the peril to her characters doesn't require them to have been lobotomised at some unmentioned point in the past. (Oh, I think I'll just go down in to that dark abandoned basement. No one knows I'm here, so I have lots of time to explore ...) As in this novel, the situation is intriguing from the start, develops nicely, and comes to a satisfying, yet unforeseen conclusion -- you can't say that about every thriller writers.
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