The Benefit of Hindsight

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Summary

'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

'Beautifully told, Hill's gimlet eye and steely prose remind you how fierce she can be' Daily Mail

One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives.

On the other side of town a woman is brutally murdered and her husband is left unconscious.

Are the two crimes connected?
Detective Simon Serrailler sets out to investigate but will his own demons get in the way?

'Keepers the reader gripped until the last page' Sunday Express

Discover the bestselling Simon Serrailler series that over ONE MILLION readers have devoured.

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Simon Serrailler, Hill’s brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer’s crime fiction novels
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

About the author

Susan Hill

SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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