Susan Hill

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1970
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel

1 - Various Haunts of Men (Aug-2004)
2 - The Pure in Heart (Jul-2005)
3 - The Risk of Darkness (Jul-2006)
4 - The Vows of Silence (Jun-2008)
5 - Shadows in the Street (Sep-2010)
6 - The Betrayal of Trust (Nov-2011)
7 - A Question of Identity (Nov-2012)
8 - The Soul of Discretion (Jan-2015)
8.5 - Hero (Jul-2017)
8.6 - Old Haunts (Aug-2018)
9 - The Comforts of Home (Nov-2018)
10 - The Benefit of Hindsight (Apr-2020)
11 - A Change of Circumstance (Mar-2022)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • I'm the King of the Castle

    'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But, young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian hous...

  • Strange Meeting

    Susan Hill's classic novel Strange Meeting tells of the power of love amidst atrocities. 'He was afraid to go to sleep. For three weeks, he had been afraid of going to sleep . . .' Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France follow...

  • In the Springtime of the Year

  • The Woman in Black

    The classic ghost story from the author of The Mist in the Mirror: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town.  Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford -- a faraway town in the...

  • Go Away, Bad Dreams

  • Mother's Magic

  • In the Springtime of Year

    In a rural English village, young Ruth Bryce is struggling to deal with the sudden and accidental death of her husband, Ben. Suddenly alone, Ruth must cope not only with Ben’s death but also with his family who view her with suspicion and hostilit...

  • Mrs. De Winter

    Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, the modern masterpiece of romantic suspense, has been a bestseller since it was first published in 1938. But when the story ended with their beloved Manderley in ruins, millions of readers were left to wonder whatever bec...

  • Simba's A-Z

    Simba, Nala, Pumbaa, Timon, and the rest of the favorite characters from the Walt Disney motion picture, The Lion King, introduce toddlers to the ABC's in a colorful romp filled with the humor and wisdom of the movie....



  • The Service of Clouds

    At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is a touch of brilliant red, the ribbon on her hat. Th...

  • Various Haunts of Men

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 1

    As the story begins, a lonely woman vanishes while out on her morning run. Then a 22-year-old girl never returns from a walk. An old man disappears too. When fresh-faced policewoman Freya Graffham is assigned to the case, she runs the risk of getting...

  • The Pure in Heart

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 2

    The second novel featuring Detective Inspector Simon Serrailler set in the English Cathedral town of Lafferton. A little boy is kidnapped as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for a lift to school. An ex-con finds it impos...

  • The Risk of Darkness

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 3

    The Risk of Darkness, even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors, explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns into obsession and threats, violence and terror. Meanwhile, handsome, introverted chief inspecto...

  • The Vows of Silence

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 4

    Melanie shops happily for supper the day after her return from honeymoon but when she gets back from the supermarket there is someone other than her new husband waiting for her. . . . Tanya and Dan, who have been married that day, slip back into t...

  • The Man in the Picture

    The author of The Woman in Black returns to the realm of supernatural hauntings in a tale that “chills the blood gently like fine wine” (The Guardian, UK).When Oliver returns to Cambridge, he makes sure to pay a visit to his former professor, now...

  • The Beacon

    What happens to a family when one of the brothers publishes his “misery memoir?” Is his litany of childhood torment a complete invention? Or was there really a cupboard under the stairs?

    The farmhouse was called The Beacon and they had bee...

  • Shadows in the Street

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 5

    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...

  • The Betrayal of Trust

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 6

    The English town of Lafferton is ravaged by flash floods. A shallow grave is exposed; the remains of missing teenager Harriet Lowther have been uncovered. Harriet was the daughter of a prominent local businessman, and her death twenty years before ha...

  • A Question of Identity

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 7

    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 mo...



  • The Small Hand & Dolly

    The Small Hand Antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow is returning from a client visit when he takes a wrong turn and stumbles upon a derelict Edwardian house with a lush, overgrown garden. As he approaches the door, he is startled to feel the unmista...

  • Dolly

    The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward, are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housek...

  • The Mist in the Mirror

    A chilling, classically-inspired ghost story from Susan Hill, our reigning mistress of spine-tingling fiction. For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has journeyed all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pioneering trave...

  • A Kind Man

    Susan Hill proves once again that she is one of our very best storytellers in this transfixing parable of greed, goodness and an extraordinary miracle. Tommy Carr was a kind man; Eve had been able to tell that after half an hour of knowing h...

  • Printer's Devil Court

    A mysterious manuscript lands on the desk of the step-son of the late Dr Hugh Meredith, a country doctor with a prosperous and peaceful practice in a small English town. From the written account he has left behind, however, we learn that Meredith was...

  • Black Sheep

    A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheater, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of ...

  • The Soul of Discretion

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 8

    In the eighth of the successful Simon Serrailler series, the Chief Superintendent is faced with worse crimes than ever, and the town of Lafferton is left reeling Susan Hill―the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugh...

  • The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories

    'No one chills the blood like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph From the horrifying secret of Eel Marsh House in The Woman in Black to the supernatural terror unleashed by spiteful Leonora van Vorst in Dolly and the deadly danger posed by Professor Parmitt...

  • Reader, I Married Him

    in Reader, I Married Him

    A short story by Susan Hill from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘Reader, I Married Him’, an American socialite reflects on her rise through England’s social circles, and a whirlwind romance.Edited by Trac...

  • Hero

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 8.5

    When Simon Serrailler was a rookie constable with the Met, he did something reckless in the course of a night's work which caused a man's death. But his act was praised by his colleagues, and he was called a hero. Years later, now a detective chi...



  • The Travelling Bag

    From the foggy streets of Victorian London to the eerie perfection of 1950s suburbia, the everyday is invaded by the otherworldly in this unforgettable collection of new ghost stories from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black . In the title s...

  • From the Heart

    A devastating coming-of-age story about a woman caught in the wrong era, from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for r...

  • Old Haunts

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 8.6

    One hot summer's day, an old flame turns up at Lafferton HQ and Simon Serrailler is catapulted back to his days as a fresh-faced PC in the Met. That long febrile summer in the early 1990s, London was reeling from one IRA bomb warning after another. ...

  • The Comforts of Home

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 9

    Susan Hill -- the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards -- returns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring th...

  • Revenge

  • A Breach of Security

    When a bunch of neo-fascist thugs named The Bulldogs attack a Gay pride march in the sleepy country town of Lafferton, detective Simon Serrailler moves quickly to find the assailants. He’s already got his hands full making security arrangeme...

  • The Benefit of Hindsight

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 10

    In this 10th book in Susan Hill’s shattering series, Serrailler must confront his demons as Lafferton experiences a sequence of shocking crimes   Susan Hill stuns readers once again in The Benefit of Hindsight, the 10th book in her celebrated...

  • A Change of Circumstance

    A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel - 11

    In award-winning author Susan Hill’s electrifying A Change of Circumstance, Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drug network sets its sights on Lafferton.   Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrai...

  • The Sound of Footsteps

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Susan Hill has published 38 books.

Susan Hill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Sound of Footsteps, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Susan Hill, I'm the King of the Castle, was published in September 1970.

Yes. Susan Hill has 1 series.
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