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Susan Hill
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099499282
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EAN: 9780099499282
Published: 1 Sep 2011
Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island, recovering from an exhausting murder investigation, when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town, another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? Then the wife of the new Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?
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A crime tale with an emotional core
- Herald
Nothing's quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose
- Daily Mirror
Susan Hill's Serrailler novels, with their persuasively-drawn copper and his equally well-rounded family, are real treats
- Daily Express
Susan Hill is extremely rare if not unique in having achieved enormous literary success in two genres, that of so-called straight novels and crime fiction... Deeply engrossing and enjoyable
- The Lady
There's something reassuringly Victorian about Hill's literary values
- Independent
Intriguing
- Herald
Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewellyn Rhys awards, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She is the author of 56 books. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989; it is also a major feature film. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler are currently being adapted for TV.
Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King’s College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. Susan Hill was appointed a CBE in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honours.
www.susan-hill.com
