The Shadows in the Street: Simon Serrailler Book 5

The Shadows in the Street: Simon Serrailler Book 5

by SusanHill (Author)

Synopsis

Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case for SIFT - Special Incident Flying Taskforce - and is on a sabbatical on a far flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have gone missing and are subsequently found strangled. By the time he gets back, another girl has disappeared. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? But then one of the Cathedral wives goes missing, followed by another young married woman, on her way to work. Serailler follows lead after lead, all of which become dead-ends. The fear is that more women will be killed, and that the murderer is right under their noses; meanwhile the public grow more angry and afraid. It is only through a piece of luck, a chance meeting and a life put in grave danger that he finally gets a result...Susan Hill has a genius for evoking atmosphere and suspense, and her characters are so real that the reader is caught up not only in the mystery but in the drama of their lives.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 01 Apr 2010

ISBN 10: 070117997X
ISBN 13: 9780701179977
Book Overview: The fifth in the series of bestsellers featuring Simon Serrailler, The Shadows in the Street is Susan Hill's most electrifying crime novel yet, another gripping and psychologically acute story set in the darker side of a cathedral town.

Author Bio
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.