Susan Hill: 61 books

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 the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon...

La mano pequeña cuenta la aterradora historia de Adam Snow, un anticuario que después de visitar a unos clientes se desvía de la carretera y se adentra en un camino cada vez más estrecho que lleva a una casa... ¿Estará abandonada? Llevado por curiosidad, se adentra en su jardín, siente una...

Theo, un experto en arte, se siente extrañamente atraído por un óleo con una escena del carnaval veneciano que consigue comprar en una subasta; pronto se dará cuenta de que los personajes representados parecen tener vida propia… Biografía: Scarborough, North Yorkshire, 1942. Susan Hill...

En La muñeca, Edward regresa a Iyot Lock, el caserón decadente en el que vivía su tía. Ahora que ella ha muerta la casa está igual que hace cuarenta años: oscura, llena de premoniciones y de recuerdos; como el de aquel verano en que su prima Leonora, una niña maligna y consentida, enloqueció...

Recopilación de los tres cuentos más terroríficos de Susan Hill, la reina de las historias de fantasmas. Si por la noche escuchas ruidos extraños o tienes problemas para dormir, no temas: es el efecto secundario de los buenos relatos de miedo. En LA MUÑECA, Edward regresa a Iyot Lock,...

À quelques semaines de la grande fête locale, un sniper terrorise la paisible ville de Lafferton... Une toute jeune mariée qui attend le retour de son époux, la maman célibataire d'un bébé de dix-huit mois, deux adolescentes à l'entrée d'une boîte de nuit... D'un bout à l'autre de la ville,...

Susan Hill—the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards—returns with a gripping new novel, the latest chapter in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic,...

In The Betrayal of Trust, she has written the most chilling and unputdownable book yet. Freak weather and flash floods have hit southern England. The small cathedral town of Lafferton is underwater, and a landslip on the moor has closed the roads. As the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave““and...

We met Simon Serrailler first in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart. Susan Hill's third crime novel, The Risk of Darkness-perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors-explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, whose derangement turns...

A little boy is snatched as he stands with his satchel at the gate of his home, waiting for his lift to school. A severely handicapped young woman hovers between life and death. And an ex-con finds it impossible to go straight. The Pure in Heart is a crime novel arising from character and circumstances,...

The murderer has left a distinctive "sign" on the body and at the scene of the crime. A few weeks later, a similar murder occurs, and then another. Initial investigations discover that the mysterious sign was the calling card of a suspect who was charged with several murders in the northwest...

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 traveler Conrad Vane. In an effort to learn more about...

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 Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married...

Dans la petite ville de Lafferton, deux femmes disparaissent sans laisser de trace. Des femmes qui n'ont apparemment rien en commun. Un secret les a-t-il contraintes à abandonner leur paisible existence ou ont-elles été enlevées ? Mais par qui ? Et a-t-on une chance de les retrouver vivantes ? Simon...