Dead Woman Walking is the latest gripping standalone thriller from Sharon Bolton, the bestselling author of Daisy in Chains, Little Black Lies and the Lacey Flint series.

‘A real race-through read. Bolton’s writing is pacy, and features a brilliant twist I wish I’d written’ Clare Mackintosh, bestselling author of I See You (in Shortlist)

‘For once, the description impossible to put down is full merited, for this is an absolute page-turner’ Daily Mail

Just before dawn in the hills near the Scottish border, thirteen passengers on a hot-air balloon flight witness a brutal murder. Within the next hour, all but one of them will be dead.

Alone, scared and trusting no-one, she flees for her life, running to the one place she feels safe. But she’s seen the killer’s face, and he’s seen hers - and he won’t rest until he’s eliminated the last witness to his crime …

‘With Dead Woman Walking, Sharon Bolton exceeds her own high standards of excellence. It grips from the start … The plot merges skilfully, with many splendid twists along the way’ The Times

‘Bolton is a gripping storyteller with fine, haunted characters’ Peter James

‘Crepuscular, uncanny mystery’ Guardian

‘Bolton establishes a forbidding atmosphere … A slippery, devious narrative in which things are not always what they seem’ Crime Scene