Susan Hill

Eel Marsh house stands alone, surveying the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway....

Now recuperated after the violent incident that cost him his arm - and nearly his life - DCS Serrailler has returned to work, though he prefers to spend his spare time sketching the medieval angels being restored on the cathedral roof....

Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn’t last long. He is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police....

A kidnapper is at large; a schoolboy has disappeared. There are no leads, and no closure. The police have failed, and morale at Lafferton Station has collapsed....

Melanie shops happily for supper the day after her return from her honeymoon but when she gets back from the supermarket there is someone other than her new husband waiting for her....

Twenty years have passed since missing teenager Joanne Lowther disappeared. Her remains have finally been uncovered....

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....

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....

The cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it is just like any other place....

A woman vanishes in the fog up on "the Hill". The police are not alarmed; people usually disappear for their own reasons. But then a young girl, an old man, and even a dog disappear....