The Pure in Heart: Discover book 2 in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series (Simon Serrailler, 2)

The Pure in Heart: Discover book 2 in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series (Simon Serrailler, 2)

by SusanHill (Author)

Synopsis

The Pure in Heart is the second of Susan Hill's novels set in the English Cathedral town of Lafferton and featuring the enigmatic policeman, Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler. A little boy is kidnapped as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school. A severely handicapped young woman hovers between life and death. An ex-con finds it impossible to stay straight...Haunting and truthful, gripping and convincing, The Pure in Heart is neither a thriller nor a whodunnit, but a fascinating crime novel arising out of character and circumstance.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 528
Edition: 1st Paperback Printing
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 Sep 2009

ISBN 10: 0099534991
ISBN 13: 9780099534990
Book Overview: The second Simon Serrailler Case

Media Reviews
Highly unsettling * Daily Telegraph *
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here * Daily Mail *
A tantalising mystery * Sunday Telegraph *
Captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly * Spectator *
For the first time in years, P.D. James has serious competition -- Philip Oakes * Literary Review *
Author Bio
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 the Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. 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 has been running in London's West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk. www.susanhill.org.uk