The Benefit of Hindsight
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  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473570405
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 2 min
  • Narrator: Steven Pacey
  • RRP: $24.99
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The Benefit of Hindsight

Simon Serrailler Book 10

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The tenth instalment in the bestselling Simon Serrailler crime series

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In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home.

On the face of it DCS Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him his arm, and nearly his life. He is back in harness at Lafferton CID, but is spending his spare time high up in the cathedral roof, making drawings of some medieval angels which are being restored.

Lafferton is apparently going through a quiet patch, so far as crime is concerned, until one night two local men open their front door to a distressing scene. Simon makes a serious error of judgment when handling the incident. The stress of this, combined with the fact that he refused all offers of counselling after the loss of his arm, takes its toll.

In her new role as a private GP, Simon’s sister Cat’s medical and counselling skills are tested by terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two very different Lafferton women. Their unreliable father, Richard, has returned to live nearby, in a luxury apartment for the well-heeled over sixties. It’s not long before he’s up to his old tricks.
  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473570405
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 9 hr 2 min
  • Narrator: Steven Pacey
  • RRP: $24.99
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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

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Praise for The Benefit of Hindsight

Beautifully told, Hill’s gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

The Benefit of Hindsight evolves 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, Shots

Superb... 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

Bookbag

I 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

Simon Serrailler, Hill’s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer’s crime fiction novels

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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