The Comforts of Home: A Simon Serrailler Mystery

Simon Serrailler faces his most difficult case yet in the ninth installment of Susan Hills gripping mystery series. Susan Hillthe Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awardsreturns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon Serrailler, this intricate and pulse-pounding series follows a collection of grisly crimes plaguing the city of Laffertonand The Comforts of Home is the most chilling and unputdownable installment yet. In this gripping new thriller, Simon, eager to be back at work after recovering from a near-fatal injury, takes on a cold-case review for the Lafferton police about a girl who disappeared some years before. Meanwhile, his family adjusts to changes of its own; namely his sisters marriage to Chief Constable Kieron Bright. But when events take an unfavorable turn for the Chief Constable and an arsonist goes on a deadly rampage in Lafferton, Simons personal and professional lives intertwine in more complex and devastating ways than ever before. In the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, The Comforts of Home is Susan Hills best work yeta heart-pounding new addition to a highly-applauded and elegant (The New York Times) series.