The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill

The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill

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Summary

Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches 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?

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The Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill

Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches 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?
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 effectThese 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 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.
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ISBN 13 9780099499282
ISBN 10 0099499282
Title The Shadows in the Street
Author Susan Hill
Series Simon Serrailler
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2011-09-01
Number of pages 400
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