Update on author Susan Hill and her
crime-fiction protagonist, Simon Serrailler:

Ms. Hill, after a hiatus of a few years, is busy again, and so is her detective inspector in a cathedral town.

Two novellas, shorter works on Serrailler, are being promoted.
One has been out for a little while: it is titled "Hero."
The other has yet to be released, but promotion is online already;
it is titled "Old Haunts."

Both revisit memories Serrailler has of his youth early in his career.

Very recently, Ms. Hill let it be known
that two more full-length Serrailler books could be expected,
and one has just been published.

The one just released is called "The Comforts of Home."
Reviews are decidedly mixed. This is one of those books
which has a great deal happening all at once,
and readers have complained of the lack of resolution.
Not the first time this has happened in the Serrailler series.

There was a mystery much earlier for Serrailler, in which the perpetrator of murders of small children was apprehended and locked away for life. It took two books to play it all out, and the first book got criticized; all build-up, much unpleasant detail, and an ending frustrating for many readers. That was because the earlier book set everything in place, and the book that followed, brought about the conclusion.

I am optimistic -- having yet to read these -- that Susan Hill is doing the same thing this time. After all, "The Comforts Of Home" is due to be followed, by the end of 2019 (we hope), by a Serrailler full-length mystery called
"The Benefit of Hindsight." We shall see.