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  • Published: 25 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448138715
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

A Question of Identity

Simon Serrailler Book 7




The seventh Simon Serrailler Case

In this gripping crime novel, bestselling writer Susan Hill takes us inside the the mind of a deranged killer as the police search for the murderer of a vulnerable old woman

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist?

One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex.

DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.

Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing.

Their killer does not exist.

'As addictive as Rankin' Scotsman

  • Published: 25 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448138715
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Susan Hill

Susan 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. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. 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 has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

www.susanhill.org.uk

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Praise for A Question of Identity

Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning

Ruth Rendell

Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction

P.D. James

This is a crime series that specialises in side-stepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect.. The books succeed in harnessing all the genre's addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination all their own

Independent

The real joy of the Serrailler series is Serrailler himself…rich in incident and intrigue

Christopher Bray, Express

The crime part of the novel…is very good. But as in all these books, we are also engaged in the continuing story of the Serrailler family… All this gives the novel a much richer texture than is usual in crime fiction…(Susan Hill) writes as an honest and disturbing witness to our times

Allan Massie, Scotsman

Hill is, as ever, a true writer and a true storyteller… Her writing, never fancy or over-elaborate, is sweet and and clear and true, lifting the story above mass-market mass-killer lit

Sophia Waugh, Spectator

Arguably one of the UK’s best crime fiction writers

Pride Magazine

Hill has a keen eye for description, an accurate ear for conversation and an innate understanding of relationships

Washington Post