Rating: 3/5
Review:
OK but nothing more
I think the
Serrailler series has been brilliant so far, but I can’t really see
the point of this very short story.
Old Haunts opens in
the present day, when a rather clunky few pages stir Simon’s
memories of a summer in the early 1990s when he was a young PC and
was chosen for some undercover work. It’s decently written and has
a couple of quite tense, unexpected moments; with a bit of revision
it might have made a chapter in a novel set at that time of Simon’s
career but as a short story it really doesn’t add up to much.
Old Haunts is OK and
will pass an unobjectionable 20 minutes for Serrailler fans like me,
but I really don't know why Susan Hill has bothered with it.
(My thanks to
Vintage Digital for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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