The Shadows in the Street
Discover book 5 in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series
Published on 1. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-09-949928-2 (ISBN)
Description
'Exhilarating' Independent
When two prostitutes are found brutally strangled to death, Detective Simon Serrailler is called urgently back from his sabbatical.
But by the time he reaches the town of Lafferton another girl has vanished.
Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing.
Has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?
'Brilliantly compelling' Daily Mirror
Discover the fifth edge-of-your seat novel in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.
When two prostitutes are found brutally strangled to death, Detective Simon Serrailler is called urgently back from his sabbatical.
But by the time he reaches the town of Lafferton another girl has vanished.
Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing.
Has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?
'Brilliantly compelling' Daily Mirror
Discover the fifth edge-of-your seat novel in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.
Reviews / Votes
Exhilarating * Independent * Brilliantly compelling * Daily Mirror * A crime tale with an emotional core * Herald * A crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect. These books succeed in harnessing all the genre's addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own * Independent * Nothing's quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose * Daily Mirror * Susan Hill's Serrailler novels, with their persuasively-drawn copper and his equally well-rounded family, are real treats * Daily Express * Susan Hill is extremely rare if not unique in having achieved enormous literary success in two genres, that of so-called straight novels and crime fiction... Deeply engrossing and enjoyable * The Lady * There's something reassuringly Victorian about Hill's literary values * Independent * Intriguing * Herald * This is a very good, very addictive read * The Bookbag *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-09-949928-2 (9780099499282)
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E-Book
06/2011
1st Edition
Vintage Digital
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Person
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 a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. 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 is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.