The Betrayal of Trust

Hugely enjoyable… This is a satisfying crime story and a fearless examination of controversial issues surrounding terminal illness * Daily Mail *The Betrayal of Trust isn’t only a page-turner - though it certainly fulfils that expectation - it’s also a thought-provoking novel about those who suffer and those who care for them * Guardian *A page-turner * Guardian *Hugely enjoyable * Daily Mail *Hugely enjoyable… This is a satisfying crime story and a fearless examination of controversial issues surrounding terminal illness * Daily Mail *The Betrayal of Trust isn’t only a page-turner - though it certainly fulfils that expectation - it’s also a thought-provoking novel about those who suffer and those who care for them * Guardian *Hill can’t write a bad sentence and her characters are all completely convincing - no more so than her long-serving detective Simon Serrailler * Daily Mirror *Her intellectual stance is engaging, her plot unpredictable and her detective a likeable presence * Scotland on Sunday *Far more than a whodunit…written with a novelist’s flair, in that the characters, however fleeting, are carefully drawn and believable * Country Life *A crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect… These books succeed in harnessing all the genre’s addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own * Independent *

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.