The Vows of Silence

"Susan Hill's crime novels are getting better and better... The main plot is straightforward enough - who is the killer and will he be caught? - but the narrative is so streamlined and effective that it races beautifully along until it smacks against the buffers of an unexpected but entirely convincing ending" Spectator "I stayed up gone two in the morning and by the end there were tears in my eyes" -- Tony Clements Daily Telegraph "Delicious agony...The suspense-building techniques of Alfred Hitchcock have long been locked into Susan Hill's literary apparatus and they are given full rein here" Daily Express "As always, Hill creates a marvellous cast of characters with absorbing contemporary concerns" Daily Mail "A triumph: cunningly plotted, shrewdly characterised. Hill has an understanding of evil that is both acute and disconcerting" -- Philip Oakes Literary Review