Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2011.
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger 2011.
Winner of the 2011 Edgar Award for the Best Novel.
A real page-turner that deserves comparison to the likes of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly. From prize-winning crime author Steve Hamilton comes the extraordinary story of a safe-cracker trying to unlock the key to his past.
CWA Judges’ comments: 'A beautifully-paced story told from the prison cell and perspective of “The Lock Artist”, who is serving time for the crimes he committed as a safecracker for hire. Hamilton uses a split narrative time-frame to uncover the traumatic childhood background, the long slow acquisition of lock-picking skills, and a boy’s harrowing journey into selfhood and adult responsibility.'
Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The Miracle Boy on account of how he survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak. Taunted as a freak, school becomes a fresh nightmare, until Michael discovers he has a special talent that makes people sit up and take notice: he can open locks.
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Michael hit the headlines once before, a seven-year-old kid the papers called The Miracle Boy on account of how he survived the terrible incident that took his parents. But although his escape was miraculous, it left him unable to speak.
The Lock Artist features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Lock Artist was written by Steve Hamilton and published by Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) an imprint of Orion Publishing Co
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