Susan Hill
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English
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Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England, and the small cathedral town of Lafferton is under water. A landslip on the moors has closed the roads and exposed a shallow grave: twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Harriet Lowther have been found. Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Cold cases are always tough, and this one will be Simon's most grisly, dangerous, and complex case yet.
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English
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Susan Hill's third crime novel, after The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. It explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns into obsession, threats, violence and terror. Meanwhile handsome, introverted heartbreaker Simon Serrailler finds his own heart troubled by the newest recruit to the Cathedral staff: a feisty female Anglican priest with...
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 7
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English
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Description
A particularly unpleasant murder, that of a very old woman in a housing project, rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious "sign" left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of...
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English
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Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his...
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 4
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English
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Hill's readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors.
A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What, if anything, links the apparently
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 1
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English
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"A lonely woman of vanishes while out on her morning run. The police aren't alarmed. But when a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk, an old man disappears too, no one can denied that something is happening in the quiet cathedral town of Lafferton. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome"--P. [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
"Dave never thought he'd spend Christmas with three chipmunks. After all, they are not a regular family. But Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are ready to show Dave what family is all about!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
311 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they don't have any information about those higher up the chain, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a 22-year-old drug addict is found in neighbouring Starley, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers?...
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
314 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers, who ask him to take the principal...
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a cold case while recovering from a near-fatal injury, Simon Serrailler finds his personal and professional lives intertwining in unexpected ways when his constable brother-in-law suffers a setback at the same time an arsonist begins a deadly rampage.
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
297 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With crime rates down, Lafferton has been quiet, until one night when a couple opens their front door to a distressing scene. Serrailler makes a serious error in judgment when handling the incident, and the stress of this, combined with the ongoing trauma of losing his arm, takes its toll. Meanwhile, Serrailler's sister, Cat, has begun a new role as a private GP, and terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two of her patients test her medical...
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
370 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler investigates the kidnapping of a young boy, a case that is influenced by a critically ill disabled woman and an ex-con who is struggling to stay honest.
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Missouri town during the 1920s, Clem is torn between family responsibility and the life he wishes to lead when he must begin working in the lead mine on his thirteenth birthday to help pay for his sister's medical care.
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Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
When her best friends reveal that they are considering affairs stemming from doubts about their relationships, a dismayed India is tempted into infidelity herself when her heartbreaker ex-boyfriend reappears in her life.
