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  • Published: 4 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448137565
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

The Comforts of Home



The ninth Simon Serrailler thriller, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black

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

A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black

DC Simon Serrailler's devastating last case was nearly the death of him.

Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long. When a woman's body is washed ashore, Simon is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police who are desperate for help.

But it's when Simon returns to Lafferton and a cold case is reopened that things start to get dangerous...

'Modern crime writing with a dark, fierce edge' Daily Mail
Discover the bestselling crime series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

  • Published: 4 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9781448137565
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

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 Comforts of Home

Opens with a shock for fans... Serrailler's struggle to come to terms with the recent past is thoughtfully done

Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Opens with a shock for fans... Serrailler's struggle to come to terms with the recent past is thoughtfully done

Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Susan Hill offers something different... fans cherish Hill's work for its judicious mix of the professional and personal... one of the most richly drawn coppers in the field

Barry Forshaw, Guardian

Susan Hill offers something different... fans cherish Hill's work for its judicious mix of the professional and personal... one of the most richly drawn coppers in the field

Barry Forshaw, Guardian

Hill paints a powerful picture of a proud but damaged man trying to remake his role in the world

Mail on Sunday

Hill paints a powerful picture of a proud but damaged man trying to remake his role in the world

Mail on Sunday