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Book SynopsisSUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include
Strange Meeting,
I'm the King of the Castle,
In the Springtime of the Year and
The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story
The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.
Trade ReviewA gripping whodunnit and a subtle study of the mind of a psychopath * Daily Mail *
I loved this book. Masterly and satisfying * Ruth Rendell *
This book must be judged as a potential successor to the great sequences of detective writing by PD James and Ruth Rendell...excellent * Daily Telegraph *
She has the priceless ability to construct a solidly-researched narrative that keeps the reader turning the pages * Independent *
Hill's first crime novel has a grip of steel * Woman and Home *
