Simon Serrailler, Hill?s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer?s crime fiction novels -- Camilla, Duchess of CornwallBeautifully told, Hill?s gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be -- Geoffrey Wansell, Daily MailThe Benefit of Hindsightevolves organically by way of a brilliant fusion of parts: plot, setting, characters, dialogue... I read it at a sitting. Not just a good book but an experience -- Gwen Moffat, ShotsSuperb... It's a book to start when you have time to spare as you're not readily going to put it down until you get to the last page... I read it in just over a day and I'm still thinking about the characters days later, BookbagI love the Simon Serailler series and this was my favourite for a while... the ongoing family drama is hugely compelling. Add to that cleverly woven mystery elements and this, for me, puts this series somewhere near the top of my literary crime favourites, Liz Loves Books Biografía del autor

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.

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