The Soul of Discretion

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