Betrayal of Trust
Author(s): Susan Hill
Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Lafferton is underwater and a landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass. As the rain slowly drains away a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed; twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Joanne Lowther have finally been uncovered.
The case is re-opened and Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Joanne, an only child, had been on her way home from a friend's house that afternoon. She was the daughter of a prominent local businessman, Sir John Lowther. Joanne's mother died - heartbroken - two years after her daughter disappeared. Cold cases are always tough, and in this latest in the acclaimed series from Susan Hill, Serrailler is forced to confront a frustrating, distressing and complex situation.
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Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is the author of over forty books, including the five previous Serailler crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, The Risk of Darkness, The Vows of Silence and The Shadows in the Streets. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running on the West End stage since 1989; it is soon to be made into a film starring Daniel Radcliffe. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King's College London. She is married to the Shakespeare scholar, Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. She lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn Books. Check out her website here.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Chatto & Windus
- : 01 October 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Susan Hill
- : Paperback / softback
- : 1
