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The Vows of Silence

Discover book 4 in the bestselling Simon Serrailler series

Susan Hill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:3rd Sep '09

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The fourth Simon Serrailler Case

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders?

The pressure is mounting...

'A captivating read' Observer

Discover the bestselling crime series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

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

A gunman is terrorising young women.


What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands?

Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family.

The pressure is mounting...

'A captivating read' Observer

Discover the bestselling crime series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

A captivating read * Observer *
I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes * Daily Telegraph *
Eagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fiction
Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending * Spectator *
Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary apparatus and they are given full rein here * Daily Express *

ISBN: 9780099499299

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 27mm

Weight: 319g

464 pages