Simon Serrailler Crime Novels (Paperback): The Various Haunts of Men (Paperback)

from Meredy

Six-word review: Murderer, victims, detectives all multidimensional characters. Extended review: From the first pages, The Various Haunts of Men invokes the silent menace of fog and shadow even as it depicts the contrasting warmth and welcome to be found in a small (fictitious) cathedral town in ...

from MuseofIre

Excellent, absorbing police procedural/thriller about several missing people, possibly shady New Age practitioners, and the mind of a serial killer. Hill feeds the reader plenty of clues about the identity of the villain and doesn't make the mistake of many authors of trying to sustain the myster...

from auntmarge64

A haunting mystery and beautifully written, but the book's marketing leads to expectations which mar the actual experience. While considered to be the first of the Simon Serrailler series, Serrailler himself is a minor character here, and I wonder if the book was originally intended as a stand al...

from eleanor_eader

Quiet Lafferton, with its drug problems and white good thefts is a change from the Met for Sergeant Freya Graffham, but she nevertheless finds herself connecting the dots on two seemingly unrelated missing persons cases to uncover a possible serial killer, while fighting off an unwanted, powerful...

from JaneSteen

Where I got the book: audiobook on Audible. I'd checked a couple of the Serailler books out of the library in the past, and have long been meaning to listen to the entire series. I loved Susan Hill's creepy stories when I was younger. This, of course, is Book 1, and what's most interesting about ...