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  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473563599
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

The Benefit of Hindsight

Simon Serrailler Book 10




The tenth instalment in the bestselling Simon Serrailler crime series from the author of The Woman in Black

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


'Beautifully told, Hill's gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be' Daily Mail

One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives.

On the other side of town a woman is brutally murdered and her husband is left unconscious.

Are the two crimes connected?
Detective Simon Serrailler sets out to investigate but will his own demons get in the way?

'Keepers the reader gripped until the last page' Sunday Express
Discover the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473563599
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

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 The Benefit of Hindsight

Beautifully told, Hill’s gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

Beautifully told, Hill’s gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

The Benefit of Hindsight evolves organically by way of a brilliant fusion of parts: plot, setting, characters, dialogue... I read it at a sitting. Not just a good book but an experience

Gwen Moffat, Shots

The Benefit of Hindsight evolves organically by way of a brilliant fusion of parts: plot, setting, characters, dialogue... I read it at a sitting. Not just a good book but an experience

Gwen Moffat, Shots

Superb... It's a book to start when you have time to spare as you're not readily going to put it down until you get to the last page... I read it in just over a day and I'm still thinking about the characters days later

Bookbag

Superb... It's a book to start when you have time to spare as you're not readily going to put it down until you get to the last page... I read it in just over a day and I'm still thinking about the characters days later

Bookbag

I love the Simon Serailler series and this was my favourite for a while... the ongoing family drama is hugely compelling. Add to that cleverly woven mystery elements and this, for me, puts this series somewhere near the top of my literary crime favourites

Liz Loves Books

I love the Simon Serailler series and this was my favourite for a while... the ongoing family drama is hugely compelling. Add to that cleverly woven mystery elements and this, for me, puts this series somewhere near the top of my literary crime favourites

Liz Loves Books

Simon Serrailler, Hill’s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer’s crime fiction novels

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

Simon Serrailler, Hill’s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer’s crime fiction novels

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall