A Change of Circumstance: Discover the million-copy bestselling Simon Serrailler series (Simon Serrailler, 11)

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Vulnerable local kids like Brookie and Olivia, whose involvement gives Serrailler a bitter taste of this new landscape. I hope the next book is not too far behind as do not want to lose the anticipation from the ending of this book. Drugs hadn't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. But her dogged (yes, there is a faithful dog involved) pursuit of care for her patients is a thing to behold.

This book sees Simon Serailler involves in a heroin overdose that could be murder and an investigation into County Lines drug activity. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. It is not the best in the series, which seems to be getting weaker as it goes on, but it was decent. However, I did find the policing aspect just a little clunky and preachy; at one point the Chief Constable gives a long and rather sententious speech to his officers, after which, one comments, “Didn’t have the chief down for a rallying-cry-before-battle sort of guy, did you?The drug storyline is handled well and there are some great slice of life portraits here, not least Vince whose brusque parenting hides depths of care.

Her novels and short stories have won the Whitbread Book, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards; received the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year; and have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. If Liv didn't do as he says some of his friends would be enjoying her - if she understood what he meant.

As ever, she is the only competent, caring doctor in the book and is surprised when the overworked worn down nurses at the hospital don't appreciate her pointing out all the things they are doing wrong. They cope quite well with the conflict between family life and the working environment considering that Simon spends a lot of time with his sister. A change in your circumstances must be notified to us within 1 month from the date of the change, or you could have to repay an overpayment, a fine or face prosecution. In A Change of Circumstance, a young local man is found dead of a presumed overdose in a flat above the Chinese pharmacy in neighbouring hippy village Starley.

The discovery of a drug addict, dead from an overdose, in the village led to an operation to try to combat the scourge of County Lines – drug dealers and organised crime spreading out from urban centres into rural communities, grooming children to act as couriers. She has also published autobiographical works and collections of short stories as well as the Simon Serrailler series of crime novels.But when the dead body of a young man is found in filthy surroundings, a hypodermic syringe hanging from his bruised and wasted arm, Simon decides that it is time to tackle the issue head on. I did feel that this book was a bit more episodic than others in the series, with shorter chapters and quicker changes of scene or character. The following description made me laugh out loud, "He was bald, having shaved his head so often the hair had eventually abandoned hope. Susan Hill's writing is superb, her plotting excellent and she creates characters who stay in your mind long after you've finished the book. Her Yorkie terrier Wookie goes missing while son Sam is home from medical school and being secretive about his study plans.