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The Comforts of Home: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
The Comforts of Home: A Simon Serrailler Mystery | Susan Hill
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Simon Serrailler faces his most difficult case yet in the ninth installment of Susan Hills gripping mystery series. Susan Hillthe Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awardsreturns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon Serrailler, this intricate and pulse-pounding series follows a collection of grisly crimes plaguing the city of Laffertonand The Comforts of Home is the most chilling and unputdownable installment yet. In this gripping new thriller, Simon, eager to be back at work after recovering from a near-fatal injury, takes on a cold-case review for the Lafferton police about a girl who disappeared some years before. Meanwhile, his family adjusts to changes of its own; namely his sisters marriage to Chief Constable Kieron Bright. But when events take an unfavorable turn for the Chief Constable and an arsonist goes on a deadly rampage in Lafferton, Simons personal and professional lives intertwine in more complex and devastating ways than ever before. In the tradition of the fabulous mysteries of Ruth Rendell and P.D. James, The Comforts of Home is Susan Hills best work yeta heart-pounding new addition to a highly-applauded and elegant (The New York Times) series.
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majkia

I do love this series. Simon is so fascinating, maddening and way too much like me, alas.

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Luulit
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Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn‘t last long. He is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police. A newcomer, popular with the islanders, has died in perplexing circumstances. The community's reactions are complicated and fragile.

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I can never pan a Simon Serrailler mystery, but this one had a few faults that moved me right out of the “pick” zone. DCI Serrailler is one of my absolute favorite male detectives—I told my mother once that if we could bring him to life, I‘d absolutely ask him to marry me (so you see my outright bias)—but in this outing (the 9th), he is a bit self-pitying, with a short temper, and a churlish attitude ⬇️

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gradcat ⬆️ towards his sister, upon whom he dumps all of the problems and duties of their extended family. Also, the ending left me quite unsatisfied. The requisite justice that readers usually find in mystery/detective novels is just not here. This series is being produced for television as we speak (in UK), and I believe it will play well. I have really enjoyed this series, though, in spite of the shortcomings of this particular book. 6y
gradcat @Cinfhen You‘re hilarious! 😅🤣😂 6y
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TrishB @Cinfhen not looking, not looking.... 6y
Andrew65 This is one series I have not started yet! But guess what @gradcat @Cinfhen @TrishB it is one on my watch list which I want to read. 6y
Cinfhen It sounds good @TrishB @Andrew65 😉 6y
gradcat @TrishB Open your eyes! 👀😂 Because the series is really good, I promise @Andrew65 & @Cinfhen ! 6y
TrishB Is this where I admit to buying the first one as it was 99p on kindle 😁 6y
gradcat @Trish YAAASSSS! Was it really only 99p? That‘s great! I think you‘ll like it, but at that price, I won‘t feel too bad if you don‘t (only about your time spent reading it)! 😂 6y
Andrew65 @gradcat in that case I look forward to getting to it! 👍 (edited) 6y
gradcat @Andrew65 Good idea 💡! 6y
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Congratulations @Mitch on your Litsy milestone! 🥂 🎉🎊❤️
The next book for me to #completetheseries is the tagged book, number 9 in the Simon Serrailler series, and I‘m just getting ready to start!
Thanks for your generosity, and I hope you get another 100K!

wordzie 😎 6y
Mitch Wow number 9! I love how crime fiction can be so addictive.... thanks for entering 🎉🤞🏼🎉 6y
gradcat @Mitch Not at all...thank you very much! 🥰 6y
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9th installment of Simon Serrailler series is not as good as others in the series but still enjoyable writing. Simon is recovering from arm amputation injury from last book on Scottish Island Taransay. He solves murder of a woman and goes back to Lafferton to solve cold case of Kimberly Still who has disappeared. Love this series but I think Hill is losing interest as last book was 3 y ago. Hoping for a next book and think you should give it a try

KathyWheeler I think I must be behind a little bit — I don‘t remember anything happening to Simon‘s arm in any of the books I read! 6y
EadieB @KathyWheeler In the last book, he received a near-fatal injury and in this book they explained that they just had to amputate his arm. 6y
KathyWheeler @EadieB I think I must have missed the last book too. 6y
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I‘m looking forward to reading this book 9 of The Simon Serrailler mystery series when it comes out in November. Susan Hill is best known for The Woman in Black but I really enjoy her Simon Serrailler series. Book 1 is The Various Haunts of Men and takes place in Lafferton, a small town near London and deals with missing people. Excellent series not to be missed.
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KathyWheeler I like this series as well. 6y
EadieB @KathyWheeler I like Simon‘s relationship with his sister. 6y
Andrew65 Yet another series I am yet to get to! (edited) 6y
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EadieB @Andrew65 That seems to be my mantra too! 6y
ephemeralwaltz I'm didn't know she had written do much! 6y
EadieB @ephemeralwaltz Surprise! Surprise! 6y
Sjhaug Awesome! I love mysteries like these and had never heard of this series! 6y
KathyWheeler @EadieB I do too. He can be so off putting and that relationship humanizes him. 6y
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