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Staff Reviews
Old women living in an almost completed housing complex are killed and posed in front of mirrors. The killer takes trophies from each victim that are identical to those taken years before in murders in which the killer was acquitted. Subsequently the man and his identity have completely disappeared. Another excellent Serrailler mystery from Hill. — Sarah Knight
November 2012 Indie Next List
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— Carol Schneck Varner, Schuler Books & Music, Okemos, MI
Description
A particularly unpleasant murder, that of a very old woman in a housing project, rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious "sign" left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of the country, tried but acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence. All indications suggest that this person has simply vanished. Or is he right under their noses? Simon Serrailler is obliged to make delve deeper and scratch out answers, in this addictive mystery of surpassing darkness by the bestselling Susan Hill.
About the Author
Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won the Whitbread Book, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys Awards and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year and have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The play adapted from her famous ghost novel, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989.
