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The seventh Simon Serrailler crime novel.

How do you find a killer who doesn t exist?

Duchess of Cornwall Close: sheltered accommodation, a mix of bungalows and flats, newly built and not quite finished.Despite the bitterly cold weather, elderly residents are moving in. They don t notice the figure in the shadows. Someone who doesn t mind the cold.

Then, one snowy night, an old lady is murdered – dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex.

DCS Simon Serrailler and his team are aware of bizarre circumstances surrounding her death – but they keep some of these details secret, while they desperately search for a match. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature.

The break comes when Simon s former sergeant, the ever cheerful Nathan Coates, tracks down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job,no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing. Alan Keyes does not exist.

A Question of Identity introduces a new and chilling element into the Simon Serailler series:it takes the reader inside the mind of a deranged killer.This is Susan Hill s most thrillingly imagined crime novel to date.