The Betrayal of Trust: A Simon Serailler Mystery (Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler Mysteries) - Hardcover

Hill, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590202805 ISBN 13: 9781590202807

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2011

Synopsis

In The Betrayal of Trust, she has written the most chilling and unputdownable book yet. Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England. The small cathedral town of Lafferton is underwater, and a landslip on the moor has closed the roads. As the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave--and a skeleton--are exposed; twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Joanne Lowther have finally been uncovered. The case is reopened and Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Joanne, an only child, had been on her way home from a friend's house that night. She was the daughter of a prominent local businessman, and her mother had killed herself two years after she disappeared, unable to cope. Cold cases are always tough, and in this latest mystery in the acclaimed series from Susan Hill, Simon Serrailler is forced to confront his most grisly, dangerous, and complex case yet.

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Review:

Praise for Susan Hill
"Compelling...Fans and newcomers to Hill's series ("The Vows of Silence," 2009, etc.) will appreciate the characters' deep humanity." -- "Kirkus"

"The updated plotlines of the cathedral town's residents will be part of the fun attached to watching Serrailler and his crew solve the two mysteries...this series has many devotees, who find in the enigmatic Serrailler the same appealing mix of intelligence and sensitivity that characterizes P. D. James' Adam Dalgliesh." -- "Booklist"
Washington Post"
"Hill knows how to keep those pages turning." - "Chicago Sun-Times"
"Not all great novelists can write crime fiction, but when one like Susan Hill does it, the result is stunning." - -Ruth Rendell
"Thoughtful mysteries...elegant prose." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction." --P.D. James

AUTHORBIO Susan Hill is the author of over forty books, includingo

Praise for Susan Hill
"If you like your crime fiction with strong overtones of serious literature, look no further than Hill . . . Some suspense novels are demonstrably character-driven and some are plot-driven, while others are atmospheric and haunting. Hill manages to combine all of those elements seamlessly, not favoring one over the other, all the while imbuing her narrative with a social conscience rarely displayed in genre fiction . . . As I wrote of Hill in a review of "The Various Haunts of Men" (2007): 'Fans of P.D. James and Ruth Rendell can rest easy, knowing that those authors' tradition of fine storytelling will move forward at least one more generation.' I stand by that 100 percent." -- "Bookpage" (November 2011), Top Pick in Mystery
"Compelling...Fans and newcomers to Hill's series ("The Vows of Silence," 2009, etc.) will appreciate the characters' deep humanity." -- "Kirkus"

"The updated plotlines of the cathedral town's residents will bei

"Hill knows how to keep those pages turning." — Chicago SunTimes

"Hill knows how to keep those pages turning."

"Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction."----P.D. James

"The updated plotlines of the cathedral town''s residents will be part of the fun attached to watching Serrailler and his crew solve the two mysteries...this series has many devotees, who find in the enigmatic Serrailler the same appealing mix of intelligence and sensitivity that characterizes P. D. James'' Adam Dalgliesh."---- "Booklist"

"Compelling...Fans and newcomers to Hill''s series ("The Vows of Silence", 2009, etc.) will appreciate the characters'' deep humanity."---- "Kirkus"

"Hill knows how to keep those pages turning."--Chicago Sun-Times

"It''s the intelligence of this brooding series that rivets a reader''s attention."---Maureen Corrigan, "Washington Post"

"Not all great novelists can write crime fiction, but when one like Susan Hill does it, the result is stunning." - -Ruth Rendell

"Thoughtful mysteries...elegant prose."---"The New York Times Book Review"

Book Description:

The sixth Simon Serrailler Case

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590202805
• ISBN 13: 9781590202807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 355