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The Betrayal of Trust

Simon Serrailler 6

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The Betrayal of Trust

By: Susan Hill
Narrated by: Steven Pacey
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Simon Serrailler is faced with that most complicated of investigations - a cold case. Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed. It doesn’t take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus. But that was 16 years ago.

How long will it take to trawl through the old, stale evidence and assess it anew?

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I was disappointed in this book - I have enjoyed all the others in the series. I felt that the crime in this book would have fitted into a couple of chapters, the cancer suffering, the motor neurone disease trauma and the Parkinson sufferer along with the all the anguish about the detectives love life was to much for me.

To much angst not enough crime!

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cannot fault Steven Pacey narration, but this story was uncomfortable from the off. Simon falling head over heels within a couple of chapters, was so far fetched from the Simon of the 5 previous books, that I felt Susan Hill was trying to wrap this character up and move on to other work.

I'm also concerned that Cat Dearbon will prove to be a femme fatale in the remaining 2 books - anyone else notice a link between her and most of the murderers?

By all means marry Simon off, but don't turn him into a drooling idiot, as for his sister give her back her passion for treating patients, please.

Didappointing

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A cold case for Simon Serailler - the bodies of two young women are discovered when torrential rain washes out part of the hillside, both murdered several years ago. His investigation is made the more difficult by the reluctance of some witnesses to tell the whole truth. At the same time he is worried about his sister, Cat, and how she is coping in her changed circumstances with her busy medical practice and young family. He is also involved in the problems being experienced by his step-mother with Simon's father, a man Simon himself has never fully understood. As usual with Hill's books other threads emerge and are developed covering voluntary euthanesia and the management of patients with dementia and these may or may not have some connection with the murders. I probably would have given 5* had I not been somewhat irritated with the details of Simon's tentative romance which kept interrupting the main storyline and which contained too much "teenage" angst for my liking. The reading by Steven Pacey was as admirable as ever.

A crime novel and much more!

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Oldfashioned cop procedural with some interesting twists. Reader was good but the story just okay.

Okay

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I have loved this series but the plot was so weak and solution so unbelievable to the point of ridiculous, the main character has altered his personality to the opposite extreme and to add insult to injury the reader is treated like an imbecile when a major piece of information is given to Cat in the last book but not Simon, then in this book Simon now knows and Cat doesn't. Has really put me off getting anymore. All that said the narrator was his usual excellent self.

so disappointing

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