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 The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill
 The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill ... but when she gets back from the supermarket there is someone other than her new husband waiting for her...Tanya and Dan, who have been married that day, slip back into town to enjoy the fun of Lafferton's 'Jug' Fair. Also in the throng among the roundabouts and coconut shies are middle-aged Helen and Phil who are planning their wedding. And someone else. Someone bent on destroying happiness - and lives. Simon Serrailler is faced with a number of apparently motiveless murders. Could the link be love and marriage? The Vows of Silence is a sequel to the Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness.Newest Review: ... are immediately familiar and easy to get on with. At times the concentration on the Serrailler's family life is such that ... more ... the murder mystery plot seems to take a back seat. This is not a criticism, since it adds to the believability of the book. These are people with lives outside their jobs, not obsessives who spend 24 hours every day at their desk. You become so engrossed in the family life of these people that you almost become an honorary family member. There is real emotional engagement in the book and what fate holds for some of the characters is more engrossing than you might normally expect from a crime novel. They are so well d...more |
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The Vows of Silence - Susan Hill: You have the right to remain silent (1299 words)
by - written on 31/03/09 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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A new Susan Hill Simon Serrailler book is always an event to look forward to, given the quality of the previous three books in the series. Thankfully, this latest continues the standard set by the earlier trilogy. The Vows of Silence sees a gunman or gunmen killing people in Lafferton. As if that the pressure of trying to track down the killer(s) wasn't enough, the Serrailler family have mounting personal problems of their own to overcome. What makes the Serrailler novels such a joy to read is that they are not purely murder-mystery crime novels. At times, they are as much soap opera as crime book; such is the concentration on the family life of the ... Read the complete review
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