Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Jess for scoring a free copy of The Best of Philadelphia Stories from PS Books.

This week, we are giving away a copy of The Vows of Silence by Susan Hill. In this fourth and most compulsively readable installment of Susan Hill’s Simon Serrailler crime series, The Vows of Silence, the enigmatic and brooding Inspector returns to investigate an execution-style killer who is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Lafferton. This unhinged murderer hunts and shoots his victims – all of whom are young brides – leaving Simon and his colleagues stymied by the apparent absence of viable clues as panic spreads throughout the town. The Vows of Silence is not just the story of a crime in need of solving, it is an exploration of the dark mind of the criminal. As Susan Hill exposes each piece of the plot’s puzzle with masterful and tantalizing control, readers are also presented with complicated issues of illness, isolation, family drama and death both natural and unnatural.  Hill’s perfectly crafted character studies and relentless plot twists challenge the genre as she proves that the consequences often of crime tell more of a story than the crime itself.

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