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The Betrayal of Trust
- Simon Serrailler 6
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
Simon Serrailler is faced with that most complicated of investigations - a cold case. Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat. A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are exposed. It doesn’t take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus. But that was 16 years ago.
How long will it take to trawl through the old, stale evidence and assess it anew?
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- Mary
- 30-04-20
Middle class soap with added criminal elements
This series leaves me with such oddly mixed feelings - I see it mostly as a soap, and I admit I am rather addicted but I feel as though I'm supposed to like or at least admire the lead character DCI Simon Serrailler and I'm afraid I just cannot. In this, I was so pleased that he went and got his heart broken. The slap his annoyingly perfect sister delivered was long overdue IMHO. What a sanctimonious ass he is!
As said by another reviewer, I also believe there is a huge error in this story. A previous book had the unlikeable father tell his daughter Kat how her mother delivered a lethal drug to her disabled sister. I had actually been wondering whether she then told Simon but it wasn't mentioned again until this story when the author turns it around and writes that it's Simon who was the one who had been told and he lets slip the news to his sister. A real howler.
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- Gill H
- 24-10-15
To much angst not enough crime!
I was disappointed in this book - I have enjoyed all the others in the series. I felt that the crime in this book would have fitted into a couple of chapters, the cancer suffering, the motor neurone disease trauma and the Parkinson sufferer along with the all the anguish about the detectives love life was to much for me.
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- Cawley
- 22-04-15
Disappointed
I rather think I dislike Simon Serailler. And I don't enjoy being lectured on dementia and MND - suffered by my mother and my mother-in-law. And the whodunit was unsatisfactory too. Shame.
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- Kindle Customer
- 20-05-22
Great series
Another great listen , I love this series. Highly recommend really wish it would be made into a TV series.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Jill Besterman
- 15-02-12
A crime novel and much more!
A cold case for Simon Serailler - the bodies of two young women are discovered when torrential rain washes out part of the hillside, both murdered several years ago. His investigation is made the more difficult by the reluctance of some witnesses to tell the whole truth. At the same time he is worried about his sister, Cat, and how she is coping in her changed circumstances with her busy medical practice and young family. He is also involved in the problems being experienced by his step-mother with Simon's father, a man Simon himself has never fully understood. As usual with Hill's books other threads emerge and are developed covering voluntary euthanesia and the management of patients with dementia and these may or may not have some connection with the murders. I probably would have given 5* had I not been somewhat irritated with the details of Simon's tentative romance which kept interrupting the main storyline and which contained too much "teenage" angst for my liking. The reading by Steven Pacey was as admirable as ever.
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- Vix
- 11-04-20
Fantastic
Great book! Really enjoyed reading it! Ready to continue the series! Susan Hill is great!
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- Patj
- 03-12-20
EOxcellent everything
SECOND TIME OF READING IT. COULDN'T PUT IT OFF AND WASTED hours listening when I Should have been SLEEPING. THE BEAUTY OF AUDIBLE IS I CAN DO HOUSEWORK WHILE LISTENING.
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- Debee C.
- 06-06-19
Excellent narration
Steven Pacey is a wonderful narrator. He brings each character to life and adds to the richness and complexity of Susan Hill’s excellent writing, plots and characters.
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- p a davies
- 20-03-21
disappointed with ending
it didn't make sense that a detective would feel sorry for perpetrator not arrest her
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- S Tait
- 02-12-15
Continuing the saga
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Betrayal of Trust?
As ever with the series from Susan Hill there are twists and turns but the trajectory follows along at a good pace. The stories are well crafted and, like other good modern detectives books, getting to know the characters is an integral part of the story. The peripherals are interesting especially the family background. The "soap opera" elements can jar a little as we follow the family and the coincidences can feel a little contrived, but that is common to many books. If it were "real" it may not be so interesting.
Have you listened to any of Steven Pacey’s other performances? How does this one compare?
As ever great performance from Steven Pacey who is one of my favourite readers.
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