Susan Hill
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English
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What real reader does not yearn, somewhere in the recesses of his or her heart, for a really literate, first-class thriller--one that chills the body, but warms the soul with plot, perception, and language at once astute and vivid? In other words, a ghost story written by Jane Austen? Alas, we cannot give you Austen, but Susan Hill's remarkable Woman In Black comes as close as our era can provide. Set on the obligatory English moor, on an isolated...
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 1
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton from London's "Met," police detective Freya Graffham explores her new community and becomes fascinated by Chief Insp. Simon Serrailler, her enigmatic superior. Though she fits well within the local police force, she finds herself unable to let go what seems like a routine missing persons report on a middle-aged spinster. When yet more townspeople turn up missing, her hunch is verified and...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they don't have any information about those higher up the chain, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a 22-year-old drug addict is found in neighbouring Starley, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers?...
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 7
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When an elderly woman in a housing project is brutally murdered by a culprit who leaves a distinctive sign that is found at subsequent crime scenes, Simon Serrailler investigates links to a suspect who disappeared after being acquitted of previous killings.
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 10
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"With crime rates down, Lafferton has been quiet, until one night when a couple opens their front door to a distressing scene. Serrailler makes a serious error in judgment when handling the incident, and the stress of this, combined with the ongoing trauma of losing his arm, takes its toll. Meanwhile, Serrailler's sister, Cat, has begun a new role as a private GP, and terrible and unexpected events at the homes of two of her patients test her medical...
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 5
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
After two prostitutes are found strangled and the wife of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean and a respectable woman on her way to work disappears, Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is put on the case and faces the greatest danger of his life.
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 8
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When a series of flash floods throughout Lafferton exposes the skeleton of a teenager who went missing twenty years earlier, Simon Serrailler investigates the girl's tragic family story and uncovers bizarre complexities and dangers.
Author
Series
Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 4
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Serrailler investigates a seemingly random series of murders targeting young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton, cases he is certain are related in spite of their varying methods.
16) Stuart sets sail
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
When Stuart Little and his family go for a picnic, he has several adventures as he tries to sail George's sailboat across the lake.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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A young lawyer, struggling with work after the death of his wife, is sent to a remote village to settle the estate of a deceased eccentric woman who owns an English manor. The village residents want him to leave as they are trying to conceal a deadly secret. But he refuses, and soon discovers that the house of his client is haunted by the vengeful ghost of a woman dressed in black.