The Risk of Darkness, Susan Hill
The Risk of Darkness, Susan Hill
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The Risk of Darkness
A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel

Author: Susan Hill

Narrator: Steven Pacey

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2011

Synopsis

Following on from the child abduction in her previous novel The Pure in Heart, Susan Hill explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns to obsession and threats, violence and terror.

About Susan Hill

Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Whitbread Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year, and have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honors. The play adapted from her famous ghost novel, The Woman in Black, has been running in the West End since 1989. Her crime novels featuring DCS Simon Serrailler—The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, The Risk of Darkness, The Vows of Silence, The Shadows in the Street, The Betrayal of Trust, A Question of Identity, The Soul of Discretion, and The Comforts of Home—are all available from The Overlook Press and are currently being adapted for television.

About Steven Pacey

Steven Pacey is an actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator. He is a highly decorated stage actor, performing often at the West End Theatre. He has appeared in numerous television roles, including Tarrant in Blake’s 7, and has made over three hundred radio broadcasts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on April 01, 2013

This is becoming one of my favorite series and this has been the best episode so far. the characters continue to be vividly drawn, their actions often woefully human and unexpected. Easy endings and plot resolutions are not part of Hill's metier. She is much wiser than that. And we readers are bless......more

Goodreads review by John on July 09, 2016

Oh, jeez, where to start? It says on the cover that this is a "Simon Serrailler Mystery" . . . except that it's not a mystery at all. A serial abductor/killer of children has been at work; early on, that criminal is identified and apprehended (by Serrailler, in a genuinely exciting bit). We never act......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on June 22, 2018

I'm really enjoying this series. Looking forward to reading the next one. Just the right mix of crime & character for me.......more

Goodreads review by Kay on June 03, 2011

When I came across Susan Hill as a judge for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, I remembered that she is best known for her ghost stories and her much hyped Mrs De Winter, a sequel to Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. More recently she has turned to writing crime stories featuring DCI Simon Serrailler. The Risk......more

Goodreads review by Jane on July 30, 2012

I must be feeling nostalgic for England this week; two posts in a row on British books! This one caught my eye because I used to read Susan Hill when I was in my twenties, when she was writing rather good, creepy ghost stories. I had lost touch with her career for some time, and was quite surprised......more

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