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 sim...

Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a difficult case for SIFT—Special Incident Flying Taskforce—and is on a sabbatical on a far–flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have gone missing ...

In the eighth of the successful Simon Serrailler series, the Chief Superintendent is faced with worse crimes than ever, and the town of Lafferton is left reeling.Susan Hill—the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, S...