Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill

One of the really great things about an idea like the book exchange site ReaditSwap is it gives you a chance to try out authors you might not have read before, with only limited risk. I’d never read any of Susan Hill’s books, but thought I’d try one in exchange for one of my books. If this is the normal standard of her writing, I can safely say I’ll be reading more in future! On the face of it, The Various Haunts doesn’t have a great deal to set it apart from other books in the crime genre. It features a police hunt for a serial killer and looks at events from the perspective of both the killer and the key characters. What does make it different, ...