As always, a network of minor storylines add depth and colour to the main themes and Simon’s sister Cat is the beating heart of the drama.

Her books have won awards and prizes including the Whitbread, the John Llewellyn Rhys and a Somerset Maugham, and have been shortlisted for the Booker.I really can't wait for the next book in the series and I'd like to thank the publishers for making a copy available to the Bookbag. When you make a claim you will be told which changes must be reported and how long you have to report the change. And it is pretty much inevitable if the main characters of your novel are a doctor and a police officer in a rural community. If your circumstances change, you may be entitled to more benefit, less benefit, or you may no longer be entitled to get the benefit at all. If you delay in notifying us of this change, you may miss out on receiving additional Housing Benefit/Council Tax reduction.

Having recently listened to a number of Inspector Dalgliesh stories, the similarities are notable: they’re both beautifully (if wordily) written and both rather smug - yet they’re languorous and well-plotted with great narrators. In this latest of Hill’s series, the Simon Serailler story continues with his position at Lafferton Police keeping him more at his desk than in the past as he manages his team. If you receive any Benefits from DWP and the amount you receive changes the DWP will tell the council.In fact, it makes for some pretty grim reading, alleviated only by the close Serrailler family relationships. You might be receiving benefits from Jobcentre Plus, HM Revenue and Customs and/or your local authority and should tell each office about your change. Unfortunately, as a Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler becomes far too involved in the basic workings of the cases. A further period may be allowed if you are absent from Great Britain due to the death of a partner, child or close relative. He wished he could have captured it in a photograph, but it was too alive and changing every second like the surface of the sea, Hannah's every breath registered on her features.

This is a change in your personal or financial circumstances which may or may not affect your entitlement to benefit. Still, it was lovely to be back with Simon and his colleagues as they try to stop local thugs using young children to run drugs, and work out if a recent suicide of a teenage girl might have actually been murder. It's a superb story and I'd have read it through in one sitting if I could have: I couldn't wait to see how it all worked out. Simon was not a shit to women in this novel – and kind of got a taste of his own medicine from Rachel ghosting him! But when the body of a young drug addict is found in neighbouring Starly, the case pulls Simon into a whole new way of running drugs.The novel eschews some of the more extreme events to befall the Serrailler family: his mother’s murder of Simon’s disabled sister and his father’s rape of a friend’s wife, Cat’s first husband’s brain tumour, Simon’s nearly fatal beating and consequent arm amputation and PTSD have been some of the more traumatic events this family have had to survive in the previous 10 books. Her Yorkie terrier Wookie goes missing while son Sam is home from medical school and being secretive about his study plans. It’s a harsh winter in Lafferton, and with struggles both at home and on the job, Serrailler soon learns that even the familiar can hold shocking surprises.