The Risk of Darkness
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485248
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496

The Risk of Darkness

Simon Serrailler Book 3

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The Third Simon Serrailler Case

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

Children are vanishing.

The village of Lafferton is shattered.

There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large.

Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?

'Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning' Ruth Rendell

Discover the third edge-of-your seat novel in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446485248
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 496
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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 Risk of Darkness

THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN 1. 'I loved this book. Masterly and satisfying. The result is stunning' Ruth Rendell 2. 'This book must be judged as a potential successor to the great sequence of detective writing by P.D. James and Ruth Rendall ... excellent' Daily Telegraph 4. 'Gripping ... and subtle' Daily Mail

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Fans of Hill's earlier work like The Woman in Black will appreciate that she can still weave a jolly good story... Minor characters acquire an extra dimension in Hill's experienced hands... Crime fans on the look out for intelligent examples of the genre will enjoy The Risk of Darkness

Kate Riordan, Time Out

The Risk of Darkness is an almost flawless novel

Spectator

Hill has a genius for tackling controversial issues head on while paying tribute to the quotidian detail of ordinary people's lives. This series has become indispensable for lovers of quality crime fiction

Carla McKay, Daily Mail

This is a crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect...These books succeed in harnessing all the genre's addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own. The Risk of Darkness reminds us that the other side of darkness is light, and that risk-taking, in fiction as in life, sometimes pays off brilliantly

Patricia Craig, Independent

A writer of the calibre of Susan Hill is never going to produce a mere whodunit... this is a complex novel, weaving themes of loss, family, the vulnerability of women and what happens when people choose isolation over intimacy with others

Daily Telegraph

They can stand on their own...this is a really good novel regardless of fiction genre

Savidge Reads

Stunning

Ruth Rendell

A master storyteller

Sunday Telegraph

Exhilarating...addictive...fascinating

Independent