Book description
A woman vanishes in the fog up on 'the Hill', an area locally known
for its tranquillity and peace. The police are not alarmed; people
usually disappear for their own reasons. But when a young girl, an old
man and even a dog disappear no one can deny that something untoward
is happening in this quiet cathedral town. Young policewoman Freya
Graffham is assigned to the case, she's new to the job, compassionate,
inquisitive, dedicated and needs to know - perhaps too much.
She and the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler
have the task of unravelling the mystery behind this gruesome sequence
of events.
From the passages revealing the killer's mind to the final
heart-stopping twist, The Various Haunts of Men is an
astounding and masterly crime debut and is the first in a magnificent
series featuring Simon Serrailler.
Susan Hill has won both the Whitbread and Somerset Maugham Awards and
been shortlisted for the Booker. She is the subject of one of the
Vintage Living Texts. She runs her own publishing business, Longbarn
Books, and edited the literary magazine, Books and Company. Her novels
are set for GCSE and A Level, and her play,
The Woman in Black
, has been running in London's West End for 15 years.
