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Simon Serrailler is faced with that most complicated of investigations - a cold case.
Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed.
It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus. But that was sixteen years ago. How long will it take to trawl through the old, stale evidence and assess it anew? The Lafferton force is struggling with staff shortages and economies, and Simon has to do a lot of the legwork on his own. Meanwhile, his sister, Dr Cat Deerbon, is fighting for extra funding for the hospice which is threatened with cuts and closures.
All the Simon Serrailler novels offer more than merely a murder mystery, and The Betrayal of Trust is no exception: it takes a brave, truthful look at old age and the associated problems of terminal illness which, in the future, will bring our society to the brink of painful conflicts of conscience.
Susan Hill's gifts are displayed here to dazzling effect: her empathy and understanding of the human heart, her brilliance when evoking character and her tremendous powers of exciting storytelling.
Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed.
It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus. But that was sixteen years ago. How long will it take to trawl through the old, stale evidence and assess it anew? The Lafferton force is struggling with staff shortages and economies, and Simon has to do a lot of the legwork on his own. Meanwhile, his sister, Dr Cat Deerbon, is fighting for extra funding for the hospice which is threatened with cuts and closures.
All the Simon Serrailler novels offer more than merely a murder mystery, and The Betrayal of Trust is no exception: it takes a brave, truthful look at old age and the associated problems of terminal illness which, in the future, will bring our society to the brink of painful conflicts of conscience.
Susan Hill's gifts are displayed here to dazzling effect: her empathy and understanding of the human heart, her brilliance when evoking character and her tremendous powers of exciting storytelling.
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"A page-turner" (Guardian)
"Hugely enjoyable" (Daily Mail)
"Hill can't write a bad sentence and her characters are all completely convincing - no more so than her long-serving detective Simon Serrailler" (Henry Sutton Daily Mirror)
"Her intellectual stance is engaging, her plot unpredictable and her detective a likeable presence" (Hannah McGill Scotland on Sunday)
"Far more than a whodunit...written with a novelist's flair, in that the characters, however fleeting, are carefully drawn and believable" (Leslie Geddes-Brown Country Life)
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"Hugely enjoyable" (Daily Mail)
"Hill can't write a bad sentence and her characters are all completely convincing - no more so than her long-serving detective Simon Serrailler" (Henry Sutton Daily Mirror)
"Her intellectual stance is engaging, her plot unpredictable and her detective a likeable presence" (Hannah McGill Scotland on Sunday)
"Far more than a whodunit...written with a novelist's flair, in that the characters, however fleeting, are carefully drawn and believable" (Leslie Geddes-Brown Country Life)
A cold case comes back to life in this sixth book in the highly successful Simon Serrailler detective series 'eagerly awaited by all aficionados' (P.D. James)
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0701180021
- ISBN 13 9780701180027
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