On Friday 4th November at 7pm, at Kenilworth Parochial Hall, as part of Warwick & Kenilworth Books ‘Meet The Author’ series,  Susan Hill will be talking about her new Simon Serrailler crime novel‘The Betrayal Of Trust’ 

 Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Lafferton is underwater and a landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass. As the rain slowly drains away a shallow grave – and a skeleton – are exposed; twenty years on, the remains of missing teenager Joanne Lowther have finally been uncovered. The case is re-opened and Simon Serrailler is called in as Senior Investigating Officer. Cold cases are always tough, and in this latest in the acclaimed series from Susan Hill, Serrailler is forced to confront a frustrating, distressing and complex situation.

Susan Hill’s novels and short stories have won the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham and John Llewelyn Rhys awards and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is the author of over forty books, including the five previous Serrailler crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, The Risk of Darkness, The Vows of Silence and The Shadows in the Streets. The play adapted from her famous ghost story, The Woman in Black, has been running on the West End stage since 1989; it has also recently been made into a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe, which will premiere in autumn 2011. Susan Hill was born in Scarborough and educated at King’s College London. She is married to theShakespeare scholar, Stanley Wells, and they have two daughters. She lives in Gloucestershire, where she runs her own small publishing firm, Long Barn Books. www.susan-hill.com

•  ‘Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning’ – Ruth Rendell
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  ‘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’s Serrailler novels are a real treat’ – Daily Express

This is a Kenilworth Festival Xtra event. Tickets £6 (£5 concessions) are available from Kenilworth Books and Warwick Books. We are very grateful to the publisher Random House for enabling us to put on this evening.