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  • Location: England "Lafferton", Exeter, Salisbury

The Vows of Silence

The Vows of Silence

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2000s: The fourth in the Simon Serrailler series

  • ISBN: 978-0099499299
  • Genre: Crime

What you need to know before your trail

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands?

Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family.

The pressure is mounting…

Travel Guide

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Map of 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: The Vows of Silence

Destination: England, “Lafferton”, Essex, Salisbury  Author/guide: Susan Hill  Departure Time: 2000s

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