The shadows in the street
By: Susan Hill
Series: A Simon Serailler crime novel -- 5
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781408486924; 9781408486917
Subjects: Simon Serrailler (Fictitious character); Fiction; Police; Serial murder investigation
Description: "Simon Serrailler ... is on a sabbatical on a far flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have gone missing and are subsequently found strangled. By the time he gets back, another girl has disappeared. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? But then one of the Cathedral wives goes missing, followed by another young married woman, on her way to work. Serrailler follows lead after lead, all of which become dead-ends. The fear is that more women will be killed, and that the murderer is right under their noses; meanwhile the public grow more angry and afraid. It is only through a piece of luck, a chance meeting and a life put in grave danger that he finally gets a result ..."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus.