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The Risk of Darkness: Simon Serrailler Book 3 by [Susan Hill]

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Children are vanishing.

The village of Lafferton is shattered.

There are no witnesses and no leads – just a kidnapper at large.

Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?

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"Stunning" (Ruth Rendell)

"Exhilarating...addictive...fascinating" (Independent)

"A master storyteller" (Sunday Telegraph) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Susan Hill is an award-winning novelist. She wrote Mrs de Winter, the bestselling sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and has been running in the West End for 18 years. Her most recent books are a collection of exquisite short stories, The Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read, and the highly successful crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart. She lives in Gloucestershire where she runs her own small publishing company, Longbarn Books. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B0055CS2A8
Publisher : Vintage Digital (27 June 2011)
Language : English
File size : 4480 KB
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Print length : 385 pages

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K E Fellows

You'll probably either love or hate the Serrailler novels. I love them.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2016

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I've now read the first three novels in Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series. Two caveats are necessary, I think.

First (at least from what I have seen so far) reading the series in order is essential. That is doubly so for this novel and its predecessor, The Pure in Heart. These two books are, in truth, one story, published in two volumes. Second, don't expect a classic whodunit or a police procedural. Hill is more interested in the effects of crime on her characters, their families and the larger community than she is in the nuts and bolts of detection. The best comparison, I think, would be to some of Ruth Rendell's novels (especially her stand-alones) or to the Norwegian novelist Karin Fossum.

That said, I think these are terrific books: suspenseful, scary, psychologically astute, written in elegant, transparent prose. The protagonist, Simon Serrailler, is not 'likeable,' exactly, but he is intelligent, complex and interesting, while the (many) supporting characters are well drawn and deftly three-dimensional.

The Risk of Darkness is definitely the most somber of the three I've read so far, and in its primary perpetrator gives one of the most chilling depictions of human evil that I have come across recently. Yet Hill always leaves little glimmers of hope amidst the shadows, like votive candles flickering in a darkened cathedral. There is darkness, certainly, but not despair.

From a brief persual of the other reviews, people tend to either love or hate these books. I happen to love them and look forward to reading the rest of the series. Highly recommended.

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Blue and white

An interesting book....but a crime novel, no.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2017

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Many reviewers of this and the previous two books have said that they really aren't crime novels at all, and I agree. They're more about the lives of people who live in a Cathedral town somewhere in England, with crimes, major and minor, seemingly to have been thrown in so that they could be published under the crime genre. The child abductions that start in book one continue in this book, but as the person is caught fairly early on in the story, the rest of the book seems to drift away and concern itself with other things. I found it somewhat slow going, with the police investigations secondary to peoples lives. There is very little action that takes place, and with no twist at the end to make me think I must read the next one.
After three books, I still can't warm to Serrailler, and probably never would if I was going to read the rest, which honestly I don't think I will.
All in all, and compared to other crime novels, this series has been a disappointment.

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A. Linton

I admire Hill but she's no crime novellist

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2018

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Much as I admire HIll as a writer, I have to say that this is the first book I've read in her Simon Serrailler series and I'm not sure if I would read any more. As others have said this isn't a detective novel in the true sense of the word, Instead of the story of the missing children - by far the most interesting storyline in the novel - taking central stage, it is solved pretty much half way through and offers no real closure in terms of the killer's motivation/modus operandi. Plenty of random crimes are included - a woman is assaulted and held captive, a doctor attending a case is mugged, another woman is murdered as a kind of throwaway element of the plot, Simon intercepts a robbery - and all this has nothing whatsoever to do with his work as a police officer! I didn't much warm to Simon - he is of course a cut above the average police officer being highly cultured and intelligent - (just like most of the fictional cops you come across in other words, Morse, Wexford et al) and the way he treats his ex lover made me like him even less - rushing away from a romantic encounter to get back because of some development in the case. Though what he actually does to solve it - or any other case is debateable. The killer is only caught because of sheer luck. If Simon has any dectective skills they are not on show in this novel.
One thing is clear - Hill is not cut out to be a crime novelist. The writing is good but the book is frustrating as a standalone novel in terms of plot and structure and I have a feeling you would have to invest in buying the whole series to get any sense of plot continuity/closure.

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Kaffmatt

Good Writing but Not A Thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2018

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Susan Hill is an accomplished author; her literature skills are second to none. However, I do agree with many reviewers that this ( and the two previous books) are not really crime thrillers- more everyday stories of townsfolk, with a bit of police investigation thrown in. Abduction is the main theme here and it carries on from book two. The protagonist is identified early on and other ‘by the way’ sub plots carry on alongside. None of the plots are dealt with in a satisfactory manner and there are so many loose threads that it becomes annoying. The author seems to be relying on readers to rush out and buy the next book in the series by leaving a few ‘cliffhangers’ (cliffhanger being a very loose description). I doubt I will be one. There are so many books in this genre that are far more deserving of being called crime.

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B. Scott

I don't like the dysfunctional middle class Serralier family

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2016

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Having read the first two of this long series, I soon realised that they are merely an excuse to write more, and more, and more....and half way through number three I know I won't be going any further with them.
I don't like the dysfunctional middle class Serralier family; Simon is a cold-fish, his sister Cat is a Christian do-gooder, and their triplet brother Ivo is safely out of the way in Australia. Thank God. Their parents are weird, their sister is an early victim and all-in-all the entire family is pretty unlikeable. This is a sort of Aga-Saga for cops and doctors.
The cliff-hangers at the end of each chapter seem to involve some woman or another bursting into tears. It's extremely tedious and rather lazy.

Two stars for being nicely-written, but the endless stereotyping ( Serralier drinks wine and cooks pasta, working-class scrotes, chavs and neds sup beer and eat jam and bread ) really is an insult to one's intelligence.

When I have limped my way to the conclusion of vol three I, too, shall be bursting into floods of tears. But they will be ones of relief at knowing I don't have to read any more.

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