A Change of Circumstance: The new Simon Serrailler novel from the million-copy bestselling author

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The 11th in the bestselling, addictive Simon Serrailler series from Susan Hill '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

SUSAN HILL has been a professional writer for over fifty years. Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker. Her novels include Strange Meeting, I'm the King of the Castle, In the Springtime of the Year and The Mist in the Mirror. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels. The play of her ghost story The Woman in Black is one of the longest running in the history of London's West End. In 2020 she was awarded a damehood (DBE) for services to literature. She has two adult daughters and lives in North Norfolk.

There are some harrowing moments in this unsparing novel, which shows how easily vulnerable youngsters can be exploited -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Hill's Serailler novels are as addictive as Rankin's * Scotsman (Praise for the Serrailler series) * Modern crime writing with a dark fierce edge * Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series) * Nothing's quite as it seems, except for Hill's brilliantly compelling prose * Daily Mirror (Praise for the Serrailler series) * All the ingredients for the perfect English crime novel are here * Daily Mail (Praise for the Serrailler series) *