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A Change of Circumstance

A Change of Circumstance

Discover book 11 in the Simon Serrailler series

Summary

‘Keeps the readers gripped until the last page’ Sunday Express

Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross.

Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs' network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages.

DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat.

But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a into the underbelly of an elaborate drug running operation. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape.

With struggles both at home and on the job, Serrailler soon learns that even the familiar can hold shocking surprises. . .

Hill's Serrailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's’ Scotsman

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

Reviews

  • Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's
    Scotsman (Praise for the Serrailler series)

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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