Well, someone asked me what was the purpose of my blog and I said 'self-promotion.' - er.. I mean 'marketing'..
So here is the blurb for the new Serrailler crime novel, THE VOWS OF SILENCE, hot from the publisher and just to whet your appetite. And OMG, they didn`t tell me they were even asking P.D.James for a quote. I would have stopped them simply because she has been rather ill. But I couldn`t stop them if I didn`t know so they went ahead without me and look what she said.
Gunmen are terrorising young women in the Cathedral town of
What – if anything – links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler falls back on well-tried police methods such as questioning neighbours and house-to-house searches. Simon has been promoted and is now with the Serious Incident Flying Taskforce, but he is still at heart a loner and these chilly murders are on his home territory. He tries to stay one step ahead of the killer, to prevent each new outrage. And he tries to think himself into the gunman’s head…Meanwhile, his sister, Cat, has returned with her husband and children from
cruelly tested.
In this, her fourth novel about Simon Serrailler, Susan Hill displays her skill as a story-teller and her gift for empathy, her passion for the small details and her understanding of the human heart and mind. She concentrates on several
characters, some known from the previous novels, others new, some defined by work, others by daily domesticity. The reader becomes intensely
involved with them all.
P. D. James
‘A new crime novel by Susan Hill is an
event eagerly awaited by all aficionados
of fiction who enjoy a mystery best when
excitement, suspense and superb storytelling
are allied to psychological
truth and fine writing.’
P. D. James
And it`s now up on amazon for you to pre-order. Pub date is June 8th.
