Book description
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? 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. She lives in
Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn
Books. Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread,
Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards and been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize. She is the author of over forty books, including the
four previous Serrailler crime novels,
The Various Haunts of Men
, The Pure in Heart
, The Risk of Darkness
and The Vows of Silence.
Her most recent novel isThe Beacon
. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black
, has been running on the West End stage since 1989.
