Description
The latest novel in the million-copy selling Simon Serrailler series
Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross.
It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside Lafferton. It's a drugs overdose but something doesn't feel right. The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare floorboards. Not even a bed.
And then there's the man known as Fats. Preying on young children to run errands for him. Burner phones with instructions messaged through. Bribes followed by threats.
Can Serrailler finally break the drugs network that's spreading through the area or is it just too powerful for him?
'Keeps the reader guessing until the last page' Sunday Express
About the Author
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.
Reviews
There are some harrowing moments in this unsparing novel, which shows how easily vulnerable youngsters can be exploited
-- Joan Smith * Sunday Times *Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's * Scotsman (Praise for the Serrailler series) *
Modern crime writing with a dark fierce edge * Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series) *
Nothing's quite as it seems, except for Hill's brilliantly compelling prose * Daily Mirror (Praise for the Serrailler series) *
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here * Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784742775
Author Susan Hill
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Chatto & Windus
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 536g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 162mm * 31mm