Editions

The Vows of Silence

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099499299

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Vows of Silence

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands?

Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family.

The pressure is mounting…

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099499299

  • Length: 464  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 29mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 319g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A captivating read

    Mary Fitzgerald, Observer

  • I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes

    Tony Clements, Daily Telegraph

  • Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction

    P.D. James

  • Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending

    Spectator

  • Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary apparatus and they are given full rein here

    Daily Express

More in this Series

View all View all
View all View all

About the Author

Susan Hill

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. 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

Susan Hill

Read more

/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/halloween-1580x450-2.jpg

Recommendations

10 terrifying classic tales to read
/content/dam/prh/articles/archive/from_the_heart_extract.png

Extracts

From the Heart by Susan Hill

Do we take our freedoms for granted? Read the first chapter from From The Heart, the new novel from Susan Hill that follows a young woman's coming of age

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies on this site to enable certain parts of the site to function and to collect information about your use of the site so that we can improve our visitors’ experience.

For more on our cookies and changing your settings click here

Strictly Necessary

Strictly Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. See More.

Analytics

Analytics cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. See More.

Preferences & Features

Preference and Feature cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. See More.

Targeting / Advertising

Targeting cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you and your interests. They perform functions like preventing the same content from reappearing, ensuring ads are displayed and, in some cases, selecting content based on your interests. See More.