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Title details for The Risk of Darkness by Susan Hill - Available

The Risk of Darkness

#3 in series

by Susan Hill
Steven Pacey
Audiobook
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Following on from the child abduction in her previous novel The Pure in Heart, Susan Hill explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement that turns to obsession and threats, violence and terror.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Simon Serrailler

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 1, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792777793
      • File size: 327470 KB
      • Duration: 11:22:13

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The third installment of Hill's Simon Serrailler series centers on mysterious child abductions. Simon is called in to investigate the disappearance of a boy, allowing narrator Steven Pacey's strong, British speaking voice to shine through the local police banter. Pacey relies on emotional tones rather than high pitch to expertly flesh out the novel's female characters, who include a precocious child witness, a terrorized hostage, and Simon's physician wife, who is treating a demented patient with CJD (mad cow disease). A taut police interrogation scene will have listeners' palms sweating along with the prime suspect's. The plethora of interesting characters and divergent subplots provides for hefty listening, and the continued development of the series regulars. J.T. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 19, 2009
      Blighted souls and the bleak lives they lead overwhelm the plot of Hill's diffuse and meandering third thriller to feature Chief Insp. Simon Serrailler (after The Pure in Heart
      ). The fast-paced opening chapters introduce the two main plot lines: a spate of child abductions that have been unnerving the residents of the British town of Lafferton is pinned on an emotionally disturbed young woman, and a man unhinged by grief over his wife's death goes on a psychotic rampage in pursuit of women who look like her. Though these events enmesh all the principal characters—Serrailler, the increasingly reluctant cop; his conscientious physician sister, who's struggling to juggle her home and work lives; and a conflicted female Anglican minister who catches the inspector's fancy—they never cohere or develop in any meaningful way. Instead, Hill expends her energies dwelling on Serrailler's emotional constipation and the behaviors of criminals who are so quirky they begin to parody themselves.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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