From the author of "The Various Haunts of Men" and "The Pure in Heart" comes Hill's third crime novel, which follows a child's abduction and explores the grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns to obsession and threats, violence, and terror.
In Hill's fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, a gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Laffterton. Serrailler must determine what--if anything--links the apparently random murders.
Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle.
Celia is heartbroken when poverty forces her to leave her aunt to find work in the city. But when she receives an unexpected inheritance, she transforms the dreary city boarding house into a place of warmth and laughter.
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I¿m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collectio...
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I¿m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collectio...
The first in a new series featuring Chief Detective Simon Serrailler. When a woman disappears in the fog up on the hill, the police aren't too worried, but then a young girl, an old man and even a dog go missing, and it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I¿m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. She has also published autobiographical works and collectio...
Marvellously written short novella - a family story as evocative, gripping and Gothic as best-selling ghost story, THE WOMAN IN BLACK. The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had been born and reared there, May, Colin, Frank and Berenice. May had been the clever daughter and escaped to go to university. But now she is back, the spinster daughter, the one who stayed, who nursed her father and mother in their old age. Now Frank is the one w...
From the author of the Simon Serrailler mysteries comes a gothic tale of high art and gruesome ends--a haunting tale of loss, love, and the most primal of human fears.
A new hardback edition of the classic ghost story from 1983, which is soon to be a film starring Daniel Radcliffe. There is also a major BBC adaptation of Hill's latest ghost story "The Small Hand" airing this Christmas. "The Woman In Black" is the basis from the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and this hardback edition is a perfect gift for new readers or a collectors' item for long time fans.
A new edition of Hill's chilling tale of a painting so terrifying, its secrets will haunt those who see it. From the author of "The Woman In Black" and "The Small Hand". 'A tale brimming with excitement, mystery and vitality...' "The Times
Paperback edition of the bestselling, chilling ghost story, published to coincide with a major BBC adaptation in November 2011. Hill's classic ghost story "The Woman In Black" has been adapted for the stage and has been running in the West End for 21 years. "The Small Hand" sold 35, 000 copies in hardback in the first 2 months of publication alone. 'Short and crisply told... The tension is built up gradually until it is taut and physical' "Ind...
