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?
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.
www.susanhill.org.uk