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Simon Serrailler Bundle: The Pure in Heart/The Various Haunts of Men

Simon Serrailler Bundle: The Pure in Heart/The Various Haunts of Men

Introducing Detective Simon Serrailler... in the first two cases in Susan Hill's gripping crime series

In The Various Haunts of Men Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler and a new member of the station, Detective Sergeant Freya Graffham investigate the disappearance of a local woman from the peaceful cathedral town of Lafferton. As more people vanish, Simon and Freya are forced to embark on a complicated mission to unravel the mystery and enter the mind of a killer.

In The Pure in Heart Simon Serrailler is nursing a broken heart while trying to deal with a new and worrying case: the kidnapping of a young boy on his way to school. As the family of the missing boy falls apart, and more children are taken, the station - and Simon - begin to lose hope...

Reviews

  • The Various Haunts of Men: This is the first of what promises to be a splendid series

    Daily Mail

  • The Various Haunts of Men: This book must be judged as a potential successor to the great sequences of detective writing by PD James and Ruth Rendell...excellent

    Daily Telegraph

  • The Pure in Heart: All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here

    Daily Mail

  • The Pure in Heart: Beautifully drawn characters...a tantalising mystery

    Sunday Telegraph

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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. 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

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