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Serrailler has just put the final touches to a particularly challenging at assignment for SIFT (The Special Incident Flying Task force) and is enjoying a well-earned rest on a sedate Scottish island. But his sabbatical is rudely interrupted when he is called back to Lafferton. Two prostitutes in the area have disappeared; their bodies are subsequently discovered -- both women have been strangled. Is the killer a disturbed individual with a pathological hatred of prostitutes, as was felt to be the case with the most famous serial killer of all, Jack the Ripper? There is, however, more to the town of Lafferton then its red light district -- the Cathedral close holds a very different position in the social strata, but has its own problems -- notably a particularly acrimonious series of ecclesiastical squabbles. As Serrailler desperately tries to track down a vicious murderer, he is all too aware that the clock is ticking. Then a piece of luck moves events along in a very surprising fashion.
Hill's particular achievement in The Shadows in the Street is to maintain two very different narratives simultaneously, while not allowing the more sensational of the two plot strands to overcome the more intimate one. There will always be those (this reviewer included) who would be happy if Hill were to spend the rest of her life producing her superlative ghost stories, but few will be complaining about her forays into the crime fiction field when she turns out books as authoritative as this. --Barry Forshaw
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The fifth Simon Serrailler Case'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALLTwo local prostitutes are found brutally strangled.Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished.Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large? Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099499282
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Book Description Condition: New. 2011. 01st Edition. Paperback. Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large? Series: Simon Serrailler. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780099499282
Book Description Condition: New. 2011. 01st Edition. Paperback. Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large? Series: Simon Serrailler. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780099499282
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -'Exhilarating' IndependentWhen two prostitutes are found brutally strangled to death, Detective Simon Serrailler is called urgently back from his sabbatical.But by the time he reaches the town of Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing. Has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large 'Brilliantly compelling' Daily MirrorDiscover the fifth edge-of-your seat novel in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured. 385 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 9780099499282