Susan Hill
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A very old woman is murdered and the murderer left a distinctive "sign" on the body. Two more similar murders occur later. Investigations reveal that the mysterious sign was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country. Tried but acquitted for insufficient evidence, this person has vanished. Now Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is obliged to delve deeper.
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A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black DC Simon Serrailler's devastating last case was nearly the death of him. Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long.
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From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, and has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land. When Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers, who ask him to take the principal...
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"A lonely woman of vanishes while out on her morning run. The police aren't alarmed. But when a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk, an old man disappears too, no one can denied that something is happening in the quiet cathedral town of Lafferton. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome"--Back cover.
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When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenage girl named Harriet Lowther who went missing 20 years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers. - provided by publisher.
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 11
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2022.
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"DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they don't have any information about those higher up the chain, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a 22-year-old drug addict is found in neighbouring Starley, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers?...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 10
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2020.
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"With crime rates down, Lafferton has been quiet, until one night when a couple opens their front door to a distressing scene. Serrailler makes a serious error in judgment when handling the incident, and the stress of this, combined with the ongoing trauma of losing his arm, takes its toll. Meanwhile, Serrailler's sister, Cat, has begun a new role as a private GP, and terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two of her patients test her medical...