
For sale is a very good hardback copy of the novel, The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill, published in 2004 by Chatto & Windus.
| Title | The Various Haunts of Men |
|---|---|
| Author | Susan Hill |
| Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
| Edition | first edition, first printing |
| ISBN | 1-8561-9714-x |
| copyright year | 2004 |
| weight (kg) | 0.860 |
| height (cm) | 24 |
| width (cm) | 16 |
| pages | 438 |
| cover price £/$ | 12.99 |
The book is a first edition, first printing as evidenced by a full numberline on the copyright page.
The book has black boards and gold lettering. The boards have no knocks or signs of wear. Internally there are no marks or inscriptions. The pages are clean and white, have no tears or creases, and the binding is tight with some creasing to the spine.
The very good wrapper is complete showing the original cover price of £12.99. It has a little creasing to the spine.
Overall a very good copy of a novel by a popular author.
The book is not an ex library book, it has no remainder marks or publisher's stamps.
A lonely woman of 53 never returns from a morning run - hidden in her cupboard is an expensive pair of cuff-links with a note: 'To You, with all possible love from your devoted, Me'. A girl vanishes in the dusk - is it to do with her teenage crush on Dava, the blue-eyed ' therapist' whose speciality is 'inner harmony'. Experienced policemen know that most missing persons either turn up or go missing on purpose. But fresh-faced DS Freya Gresham won't drop it - what could possibly link the people who disappear on 'The Hill', young and old, men and women, even a little dog. In 'Various Haunts of Men', Susan Hill has created an absolutely convincing small cathedral town (within the orbit of a large urban city). She has peopled it with 'real' characters - the husband-and-wife GPs, the exceedingly dodgy surgeon, the grieving widow who is helped through the ritual of Christmas by her kindly neighbour, the down-to-earth flatmate ...and the tall blond police officer, Simon, who stands at the centre of an ordinary world in which gruesome things go on in lock-up garages.

Susan Hill has been a full-time writer since 1963 and has written over thirty titles. Since 1977 she has been a monthly columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
She has also written several non-fiction books and books for children (Can It Be True? won the Smarties Prize), as well as editing short story compilations.
As well as writing, she has set up a publishing company, Long Barn Books, inspired by her lifelong admiration for Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press. She also runs a literary magazine, Books and Company, and owns the lease on a gift shop in Chipping Campden.
From Publishers Weekly
Weaving together a variety of subtly interrelated narratives, British author Hill (Air and Angels) embeds a thoughtful reflection on alternative medicine into a taut and suspenseful mystery, the first of a new crime series featuring Chief Insp. Simon Serrailler. Having transferred to the small cathedral town of Lafferton from London's 'Met,' police detective Freya Graffham explores her new community and becomes fascinated by Serrailler, her enigmatic superior. Though she fits well within the local police force, she finds herself unable to let go what seems like a routine missing persons report on a middle-aged spinster. When yet more townspeople turn up missing, her hunch is verified and a serious police search begins, bringing her into closer proximity with Serrailler at the same time it exposes her to danger.
A dark but entirely convincing ending may startle some readers, but Hill's fine writing and nuanced insight into human nature should appeal to fans of such masters of the psychological thriller as P.D. James, Elizabeth George and Ruth Rendell, who provides a blurb.
| UK 1st class £ | UK 2nd Class £ | Europe Airmail £ | World Airmail £ | World Surface £ | |
| 0.140 - 0.389 kg | 2.79 | 2.50 | 4.20 | 7.18 | 4.20 |
| 0.390 - 0.639 kg | 3.30 | 2.91 | 5.52 | 9.95 | 5.87 |
| 0.640 - 0.889 kg | 3.88 | 3.39 | 6.62 | 12.25 | 7.21 |
| 0.890 - 1.139 kg | 5.05 | 4.96 | 7.66 | 14.49 | 8.53 |