The fourth in the series of bestselling crime novels featuring Simon Serrailler, now a Detective Chief Superintendent.
SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
A captivating read
*Observer*
I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears
in my eyes
*Daily Telegraph*
Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction
Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main
plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be
caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it
races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an
unexpected but entirely convincing ending
*Spectator*
Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred
Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary
apparatus and they are given full rein here
*Daily Express*
As always, Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with
absorbing contemporary concerns
*Daily Mail*
A triumph: cunningly plotted, shrewdly characterised. Hill has an
understanding of evil that is both acute and disconcerting
*Literary Review*
The psychology and pace of the whole - and the quality of the
writing - are utterly absorbing
*Country Life*
Masterly story telling from an accomplished writer
*The Good Book Guide*
It's a wonder it hasn't been snapped up for telly
*Scotland on Sunday*
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