Susan Hill crea narrativas que profundizan en la profundidad psicológica y el suspense, explorando a menudo temas de aislamiento y miedo. Su prosa se caracteriza por un estilo económico pero evocador que atrae a los lectores a los inquietantes mundos de sus personajes. Hill construye magistralmente una atmósfera que desciende lentamente, dejando una impresión duradera. Su habilidad para penetrar en los rincones más oscuros de la psique humana la distingue como una voz potente en la literatura de suspense.
Arthur Kipps, un joven abogado, viaja a un pueblo remoto para asistir al funeral de una anciana. Sin imaginar lo que le espera, ve en esta misión una oportunidad de ascenso profesional que podría acercarlo a su sueño de casarse.
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, el caserón decadente en el que vivía su tía. Ahora que ella ha muerto, 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 cuando nadie le regaló la muñeca que tanto ansiaba. 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 fría mano de niño que se agarra a la suya, una mano que a partir de aquel momento jamás dejará de atormentarlo. EL HOMBRE DEL CUADRO cierra esta escalofriante trilogía de Susan Hill. 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…
A collection of short stories both in the contemporary and traditional style. The book includes suggestions for writing and aims to encourage pupils to consider alternative ways of looking at a play or story. It is intended for class use and for GCSE examinations and coursework.
Tom's mother helps him get rid of his bad dreams one night at a time.
From the outside, the cathedral town of Lafferton seems idyllic, but in many ways it just like any other place. It suffers from the same kinds of crime, is subject to the same pressures from a rapidly changing world, has the same hopes and fears as any number of towns up and down the land.When one day DC Simon Serrailler is called in by Lafferton's new Chief Constable, Kieran Bright, he is met by two plainclothes officers. He is asked to take the principal role in a difficult, potentially dangerous undercover operation and must leave town immediately, without telling anyone - not even his girlfriend Rachel, who has only just moved in with him. Meanwhile, Simon's sister Cat is facing difficult choices at work, as Lafferton's hospice closes its bedded units; and at home, as her daughter is presented with a glittering opportunity that they would struggle afford. And all is not well with Simon and Cat's step-mother, Judith, either. To complete his special op, Simon must inhabit the mind of the worst kind of criminal. This takes its toll on Simon and, as the op unfolds, also on the town and some of its most respected citizens.
'Serrailler, Hill's brilliant detective, is the central character in the great writer's crime fiction novels' CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding villages DCS Simon Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in the Lafferton area as a waste of time. Small-time dealers are picked up outside the local secondary school, they're given a fine or a suspended and away they go. And rinse and repeat. But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs. The foot soldiers? Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, who will give Simon a bitter taste of this new landscape... 'Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's' SCOTSMAN
World-changers. Rebels. Rejecters of the status quo. Throughout history, Christians were never meant to have a safe faith. Highlighting people throughout the millennia, Dangerous Faith is a compilation of faith, facts, and art that celebrates the faith lives of spiritual giants and inspires you to grow in your own personal faith.
Simon Serrailler's story began in The Various Haunts of Men (about a serial killer) and continued with The Pure in Heart (about a kidnapped schoolboy) Susan Hill is not afraid to tackle difficult issues, nor to face up to the realities of st
Simon 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 of the St. Michael's Cathedral Dean goes missing and then another respectable woman is taken on her way to work, the townspeople grow angry and afraid. Serrailler is in the greatest danger of his life.
In the peaceful cathedral city of Lafferton, a gunman is terrorising young women. What if anything links the attacks? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun or do the police have two snipers on their hands?Detective
