- Published: 2 October 2014
- ISBN: 9781448137558
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
The Soul of Discretion
Simon Serrailler Book 8
- Published: 2 October 2014
- ISBN: 9781448137558
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
The Simon Serrailler novels are in a league of their own; literate, detailed and full of drama - they stand head and shoulders above the majority of crime novels. This is the eighth novel in the series and is the darkest and most disturbing yet. It is also the best.
CrimeSquad
A wonderful storyteller… she is also one of those rare crime writers whose books invite a second reading
Scotsman
Kept me turning the pages, gripped
Woman & Home
Hill's Serrailler novels have developed into a series whose appeal stretches beyond their genre... The secret of Hill's narrative style is that she forces the readers to invest emotionally in her characters. And then she makes ghastly things happen to them... It sounds easy, but it isn't
Spectator
This is modern crime writing with a dark, fierce edge – and all the better for it
Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Although at times distressing, Hill tackles a difficult issue without losing any tension and the finale keeps the reader gripped until the last page
Jaymi McCann, 4 stars, Sunday Express
Never less than wholly absorbing
Church Times
Keeps the reader gripped until the last page
Sunday Express
Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when Susan Hill does the result is stunning
Ruth Rendell
Exhilarating… These books succeed in harnessing all the genre’s addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own
Independent
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here
Daily Mail
She captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly...her characters are drawn with loving detail
Spectator
Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction
P.D. James
Susan Hill writes as an honest and disturbing witness to our times
Scotsman
The real joy of the Serrailler series is Serrailler himself…rich in incident and intrigue
Daily Express
Nothing’s quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose
Daily Mirror
Nothing’s quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose
Daily Mirror
Keeps the reader gripped until the last page
Sunday Express
Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when Susan Hill does the result is stunning
Ruth Rendell
Exhilarating… These books succeed in harnessing all the genre’s addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own
Independent
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here
Daily Mail
She captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly...her characters are drawn with loving detail
Spectator
Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction
P.D. James
Susan Hill writes as an honest and disturbing witness to our times
Scotsman
The real joy of the Serrailler series is Serrailler himself…rich in incident and intrigue
Daily Express
Never less than wholly absorbing
Church Times
Never less than wholly absorbing
Church Times
Although at times distressing, Hill tackles a difficult issue without losing any tension and the finale keeps the reader gripped until the last page
Jaymi McCann, 4 stars, Sunday Express
This is modern crime writing with a dark, fierce edge – and all the better for it
Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Hill's Serrailler novels have developed into a series whose appeal stretches beyond their genre... The secret of Hill's narrative style is that she forces the readers to invest emotionally in her characters. And then she makes ghastly things happen to them... It sounds easy, but it isn't
Spectator
Kept me turning the pages, gripped
Woman & Home
A wonderful storyteller… she is also one of those rare crime writers whose books invite a second reading
Scotsman
The Simon Serrailler novels are in a league of their own; literate, detailed and full of drama - they stand head and shoulders above the majority of crime novels. This is the eighth novel in the series and is the darkest and most disturbing yet. It is also the best.
CrimeSquad
Captures sinister atmosphere brilliantly
Spectator
A tantalising mystery
Sunday Telegraph
All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here
Daily Mail
Highly unsettling
Daily Telegraph
What you know about human nature is simultaneously being enlarged and improved upon thanks to Hill’s almost Shakespearean insights into what it is to be
Christopher Bray, Daily Express