Why a Booktrail?
2000s: The third in the Simon Serrailler series
The Risk of Darkness
What you need to know before your trail
Children are vanishing.
The village of Lafferton is shattered.
There are no witnesses and no leads – just a kidnapper at large.
Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?
Locations
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BookTrail Travel to Lafferton
Map of Lafferton from the book
BookTrail Travel To Exeter
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 Risk of Darkness
Destination: England, “Lafferton”, Essex Author/guide: Susan Hill Departure Time: 1800s
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