A Question of Identity

Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunningEagerly awaited by all aficionados of crime fictionThe real joy of the Serrailler series is Serrailler himself…rich in incident and intrigue * Express *Arguably one of the UK’s best crime fiction writers * Pride Magazine *Hill is, as ever, a true writer and a true storyteller… Her writing, never fancy or over-elaborate, is sweet and and clear and true, lifting the story above mass-market mass-killer lit * Spectator *This is a crime series that specialises in side-stepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect.. The books succeed in harnessing all the genre’s addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination all their own * Independent *The crime part of the novel…is very good. But as in all these books, we are also engaged in the continuing story of the Serrailler family… All this gives the novel a much richer texture than is usual in crime fiction…(Susan Hill) writes as an honest and disturbing witness to our times * Scotsman *

Hill has a keen eye for description, an accurate ear for conversation and an innateunderstanding of relationships

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. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honours. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I’m the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and A Kind Man. 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 has been running in London’s West End since 1988. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

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