Susan Hill
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English
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Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England, and the small cathedral town of Lafferton is under water. A landslip on the moors has closed the roads and exposed a shallow grave: twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Harriet Lowther have been found. Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Cold cases are always tough, and this one will be Simon's most grisly, dangerous, and complex case yet.
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English
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Susan Hill's third crime novel, after The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. It explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns into obsession, threats, violence and terror. Meanwhile handsome, introverted heartbreaker Simon Serrailler finds his own heart troubled by the newest recruit to the Cathedral staff: a feisty female Anglican priest with...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 7
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English
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A particularly unpleasant murder, that of a very old woman in a housing project, rocks the town of Lafferton. The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of crime. A couple of weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and a month or so later, so does another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious "sign" left on the body was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest of...
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English
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Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case and is on sabbatical on a far-flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. When the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 4
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English
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Hill's readers met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors.
A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. What, if anything, links the apparently
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 1
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English
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"A lonely woman of vanishes while out on her morning run. The police aren't alarmed. But when a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk, an old man disappears too, no one can denied that something is happening in the quiet cathedral town of Lafferton. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she must unravel the mystery before events turn too gruesome"--P. [4] of cover.
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[2012]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Cassie gets to bring home the chicks her class hatched at school, but when Cassie leaves Marley alone with the chicks and the latch opens, the chicks escape and Marley must try and return all the chicks to their cage before mom and Cassie get back.
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[2008]
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32 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Dave never thought he'd spend Christmas with three chipmunks. After all, they are not a regular family. But Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are ready to show Dave what family is all about!"--Page 4 of cover.
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[2011]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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One night during a thunderstorm, Dolly, the daughter of Black Beauty's owner, runs out of the barn to find her cat and Black Beauty, after searching for her everywhere, finds Dolly struggling to swim after she has fallen into the river.
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[2011]
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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When Mommy decide to surprise Cassie with a newly painted bedroom, she is careful to put the dog Marley in the garage before she begins the task. But as soon as her back is turned, Marley ventures into the house "to help." By the time he's done, the messy dog is in need of a little help himself.
