Vintage books The Pure in Heart Хилл Сьюзен

A deadly new threat awaits Simon Serrailler in this compulsive thriller from Susan Hill, the bestselling author of The Woman in Black • DC Simon Serrailler's devastating last case was nearly the death of him • Recovering on a remote Scottish island, his peace doesn't last long. When a woman's body is washed ashore, Simon is pulled in to a murder inquiry by the overstretched local police who are desperate for help • But it's when Simon returns to Lafferton and a cold case is reopened that things start to get dangerous

A gunman is terrorising young women • What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands? • Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family • The pressure is mounting

Однажды дождливой ночью супружеская пара приглашает в свой дом двух незнакомцев, нуждающихся в помощи. Это поступок, о котором они будут сожалеть всю оставшуюся жизнь • На другом конце города жестоко убита женщина, а ее муж остался без сознания • Связаны ли эти два преступления? • Детектив Саймон Серрайлер отправляется на расследование, но помешают ли ему его собственные демоны? • Книга на английском языке • One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives • On the other side of town a woman is brutally murdered and her husband is left unconscious • Are the two crimes connected? • Detective Simon Serrailler sets out to investigate but will his own demons get in the way?

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?

В романе Сьюзен Хилл "Осмотрительность" Саймон Серрайлер сталкивается со своим самым опасным испытанием • Кафедральный город Лаффертон кажется идиллическим, но во многих отношениях он ничем не отличается от любого другого места. Являясь частью того же быстро меняющегося мира, он разделяет те же надежды и страхи, а также те же виды преступности, что и любое количество городов по всей стране • Когда однажды констебля Саймона Серрайлера вызывает новый главный констебль Лаффертона Кирон Брайт, его встречают четверо офицеров в штатском. Его просят взять на себя ведущую роль в сложной, потенциально опасной операции под прикрытием, и он должен немедленно покинуть город, никому ничего не сказав • Тем временем Кэт, сестра Саймона, сталкивается на работе с трудным выбором, который проверит ее преданность Национальной службе здравоохранения

Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rain water slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed • It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, who was last seen sixteen years ago • But a cold case isn't a priority: if Detective Inspector Simon Serrailler is to solve the case, he will have to do it alone

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist? • One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex • DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature • Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing • Their killer does not exist

A terrifying ghost story, by the author of the The Woman in Black • A terrifying ghost story by the bestselling author of The Woman in Black • One dark and rainy night, Sir James Monmouth returns to London after years spent travelling alone • Intent on uncovering the secrets of his childhood hero, the mysterious Conrad Vane, he begins to investigate Vane's life, but he finds himself warned off at every turn • Before long he realises he is being followed too. A pale, thin boy is haunting his every step but every time he tries to confront the boy he disappears. And what of the chilling scream and desperate sobbing only he can hear? • His quest leads him eventually to the old lady of Kittiscar Hall, where he discovers something far more terrible at work than he could ever have imagined

Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own. The Gentleman in the Parlour is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life

Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled • Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished • Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large?

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie • From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up in the trees. He walks through paths made from the twisted branches of olive, makes his bed in a holly oak, bathes in a fountain constructed from poplar bark. An aerial library holds the books with which he educates himself in philosophy and mathematics. Suspended among the leaves, the Baron adventures with bandits and pirates, conducts a passionate love affair, and watches the Age of Enlightenment pass by beneath him

Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night before. When this happens several mornings in a row, he realises he needs to investigate • After his friend Volodka follows him one night, they discover he's meeting a tall, blonde woman and accompanying her to her apartment. In the daytime he doesn't know this woman or where her apartment is and, odder yet, someone is watching Volodka watching Semyon • Meanwhile, there are some strange goings-on in Kyiv - an unemployed sniffer-dog handler makes a dangerous discovery, a single mother is providing breast milk for an unusual recipient and a vengeful cat is on the loose