Susan Hill
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Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 6
Description
"Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England. The small cathedral town of Lafferton is underwater, and a landslip on the moor has closed the roads. As the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave--with a skeleton--is exposed; sixteen years on, the remains of missing teenager Harriet Lowther have finally been recovered. The case is reopened and Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Harriet, an only child, had been...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 1
Description
Freya Graffham and Chief Inspector Simon Serrallier join forces to investigate a bizarre series of events that lead to murder.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 8
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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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 2
Description
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is called home from his Venice vacation to help investigate the disappearance of a child who was last seen waiting outside Simon's home, and as he learns more about the young boy, he also learns more about himself and the community where he lives.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Simon Serailler takes on the case of an obsessive widower engaging in increasingly violent acts, a case that is further complicated by Serailler's troubled feelings for the Cathedral's newest recruit, a red-haired woman Anglican priest.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2012
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...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
Description
After two prostitutes are found strangled and the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean and a respectable woman on her way to work go missing, Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is put on the case and faces the greatest danger of his life.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
When a lone gunman terrorizes young women in Lafferton, Simon Serrailler is put on the case, but he is also struggling with tragedy in his own family.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 9
Pub. Date
20181120
Description
Susan Hill-the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards-returns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon Serrailler, this intricate and pulse-pounding series follows a collection of grisly crimes plaguing the city of Lafferton-and The Comforts of Home is the most...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Recuperating after losing his arm in a violent incident, DCS Serrailler finds his efforts to pursue more rehabilitative work complicated by a breaking-and-entering case that tests the limits of his skills and stability.