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2000s: The seventh in the Simon Serrailler series
A Question of Identity
What you need to know before your trail
One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex.
DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.
Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing.
Their killer does not exist.
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BookTrail Travel to Lafferton
Map of Lafferton from the book
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BookTrail Travel to Salisbury
Lafferton is a fictional cathedral town somewhere in Southern England.
On Susan Hill’s Website she says of Lafferton “I am often asked if it is based on a real place. No, but if you think of places like Exeter or Salisbury you are on the right lines.”
There is a map in each of the books and together with the descriptions in the story, you get a good sense of time and place.
From The Various Haunts of Men:
“It was small, but not too small, had wide, leafy avenues and some pretty Victorian terraces and, in the Cathedral Close, fine Georgian houses. The Cathedral itself was magnificent . . . and there were quality shops, pleasant cafes.”
BookTrail Boarding Pass: A Question of Identity
Destination: England, “Lafferton”, Essex, Salisbury Author/guide: Susan Hill Departure Time: 2000s
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