The Shadows in the Street Paperback by Susan Hill

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2011-02-22)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307399137
• Item Weight: 317.52 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.02 x 0.78 cm

Susan Hill's most exciting crime novel yet, another gripping and psychologically acute story set in the darker side of a Cathedral town. Now available in trade paperback from Vintage Canada.

Simon Serrailler is on a sabbatical when he is recalled to Lafferton to investigate the murders of two local prostitutes. By the time he returns, another girl has disappeared. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry customer? But then one of the Cathedral wives goes missing, followed by another young married woman, on her way to work. Serrailler follows lead after lead, all of which become dead ends. It is only through a piece of luck, a chance meeting and a life put in grave danger that he finally gets a result...

Susan Hill has a genius for evoking atmosphere and suspense, and her characters are so real that the reader is caught up not only in the mystery but in the drama of their lives.

About the Author

SUSAN HILL is an award-winning novelist. Her novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelynn Rhys Prizes, and her ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted for the stage and has beeen running in the West End for eighteen years. It is her literary skills that have made her ghost stories and her crime novels — the Simon Serrailler series — so compulsive and successful. Born in Scarborough, she lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books.