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  • Published: 7 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473563582
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

A Change of Circumstance

Discover book 11 in the Simon Serrailler series




The 11th in the bestselling, addictive Simon Serrailler series from Susan Hill

Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs' network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages

DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape.

It is a harsh winter at home as well as work. Simon's GP sister Cat and her husband Kieron are struggling with medical dramas big and small. A trip to Bevham General on her rounds sets off alarm bells for Dr Cat, and a visit from her son Sam as he tries to work out if his midwifery course is right for him coincides with a threat to their beloved family dog. Simon is working hard, but he's restless, wondering what next. There's nothing new going on for him in Lafferton, but sometimes the familiar holds surprises, too . . .

  • Published: 7 October 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473563582
  • 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 Change of Circumstance

There are some harrowing moments in this unsparing novel, which shows how easily vulnerable youngsters can be exploited

Joan Smith, Sunday Times

There are some harrowing moments in this unsparing novel, which shows how easily vulnerable youngsters can be exploited

Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's

Scotsman (Praise for the Serrailler series)

Modern crime writing with a dark fierce edge

Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series)

Nothing's quite as it seems, except for Hill's brilliantly compelling prose

Daily Mirror (Praise for the Serrailler series)

All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here

Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series)