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The Soul of Discretion

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099575948

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 277g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Soul of Discretion

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

Simon Serrailler faces his most dangerous challenge yet in the edge-of-your-seat thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black.

Going undercover, he must leave town immediately, change his identity and sever all contact with friends and family.

And, more importantly, he must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal.

But can he do so without losing everything?

'Crime writing with a dark, fierce edge' Daily Mail

'Keeps the reader gripped until the last page' Sunday Express

Discover the bestselling crime series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099575948

  • Length: 400  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 277g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • This is modern crime writing with a dark, fierce edge – and all the better for it

    Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

  • Keeps the reader gripped until the last page

    Sunday Express

  • Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when Susan Hill does the result is stunning

    Ruth Rendell

  • Exhilarating… These books succeed in harnessing all the genre’s addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own

    Independent

  • All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here

    Daily Mail

  • She captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly...her characters are drawn with loving detail

    Spectator

  • Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction

    P.D. James

  • Susan Hill writes as an honest and disturbing witness to our times

    Scotsman

  • The real joy of the Serrailler series is Serrailler himself…rich in incident and intrigue

    Daily Express

  • Nothing’s quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose

    Daily Mirror

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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. 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.

Susan Hill

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