Simon Serrailler Series by Susan Hill (.ePUB)
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Simon Serrailler Series (#1-2) by Susan Hill
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Overview: The Simon Serrailler novels are Susan Hill’s slow-burn, character-first crime series, set in the fictional cathedral town of Lafferton. The cases are serious and often unsettling, but the books aren’t built around flashy tricks. They’re built around people, place, and the way trouble ripples through a community that likes to think it knows itself.
Simon Serrailler is a thoughtful, methodical detective, the kind who listens more than he talks and notices the small inconsistencies other people skip past. He works closely with a team that includes DS Freya Graffham, who arrives in Lafferton as an outsider and quickly becomes essential. Around them, Hill keeps returning to colleagues, families, and local institutions, the cathedral close, schools, doctors, social services, and the quiet streets where everyone has an opinion.
A big part of the series is the Serrailler circle beyond the police station. Simon’s sister, Dr Cat Deerbon, is a local GP, and Hill follows the pressures of work, marriage, and family alongside the crimes. That blend is part of the point: in Lafferton, the professional and the personal keep bumping into each other, and no one gets to shut off the outside world at the front door.
Most of the books start with something that looks contained, a disappearance, a death that doesn’t sit right, a frightening act that seems to come from nowhere. Then the story widens. Hill is interested in what people hide in plain sight, what they tell themselves to get through the day, and what can happen when someone vulnerable meets someone persuasive. The opening novel, The Various Haunts of Men, sets the tone: procedural work on the surface, a deeper emotional current underneath.
The mysteries don’t unfold at a sprint. Instead, Hill builds momentum through interviews, observation, and the slow accumulation of uneasy detail. The result feels closer to living in a town during a crisis than watching a neat puzzle click into place. When violence arrives, it rarely stays contained to a single victim or a single household.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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