The Shadows in the Street - Rilegato

Susan Hill

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ISBN 10: 0307399125 ISBN 13: 9780307399120

Casa editrice: Overlook Press, 2010

Riassunto

Simon Serrailler is back in the fifth installment of this extremely popular series.

Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case for SIFT — Special Incident Flying Task force and is on a sabbatical couple of months on a far-flung Scottish island, Tallansay, walking, drawing, relaxing, and having a pleasant no-ties fling with the hotel barmaid, Kirsty.

He is called back just before his leave is due to end by Paula Devenish the Chief Constable, when two local prostitutes go missing and are subsequently found strangled. By the time he gets back, another girl has disappeared. So, a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? A series of killings by an angry punter? But then the wife of the new Dean of St Michael's Cathedral goes missing, followed by another respectable young married woman, on her way to the early shift at the print works.

Is this all the work of one serial killer? The murders all take place in and around the canal area, near the footbridge.

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“Elegant.”
—The New York Times Book Review

"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 story-telling are allied to psychological truth and fine writing."
—P. D. James

"Susan Hill's Serrailler novels, with their persuasively-drawn copper and his equally well-rounded family, are real treats."
—Daily Express

"Nothing's quite as it seems, except Hill's brilliantly compelling prose."
—Daily Mirror

"A crime tale with an emotional core."
—The Herald

"Susan Hill is extremely rare if not unique in having achieved enormous literary success in two genres, that of so-called straight novels and crime fiction... deeply engrossing and enjoyable."
—Antonia Fraser, The Lady

L'autore

SUSAN HILL is an award-winning novelist. Her novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelynn Rhys Prizes, and her ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted for the stage and has beeen running in the West End for eighteen years. It is her literary skills that have made her ghost stories and her crime novels — the Simon Serrailler series — so compulsive and successful. Born in Scarborough, she lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books.

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• Editore: Overlook Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0307399125
• ISBN 13: 9780307399120
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 384