`Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... an unexpected but entirely convincing ending'

`full marks to Susan Hill for her ability to face the unfaceable'

`I devoured it in a couple of days - and I know I'll read the next one in the series'

`In her new novel Susan Hill combines an excellent detective story combined with a wrought family drama...'

The fourth in the series of bestselling crime novels featuring Simon Serrailler, now a Detective Chief Superintendent.

A gunman is terrorising young women in the Cathedral town of Laffteron. What - if anything - links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun? "The Vows of Silence" is a sequel to the "Various Haunts of Men", "The Pure in Heart" and "The Risk of Darkness". 'This is a crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect...These books succeed in harnessing all the genre's addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own' - "Independent".

'Susan Hill has always been able to tell a good story ... and we should be delighted that she has turned her formidable talent to crime writing' Daily Mail

Susan Hill's novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelynn Rhys Prizes, and many of them are set texts for GCSE and A levels. She is the author of Mrs de Winter, the sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story, The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and has been running in London for more than twenty years

Born in Scarborough, she lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books.

2008-08-24 Im in love with Simon .....

I was so excited to receive this book,Ive enjoyed the previous books so much and Im glad to say that I wasnt disappointed.

I found the parts about Cat and Chris,well written and believable, just loved the book.

Buy it .