One hot summer's day, an old flame turns up at Lafferton HQ and Simon Serrailler is catapulted back to his days as a fresh-faced PC in the Met.
That long febrile summer in the early 1990s, London was reeling from one IRA bomb warning after another. Sirens. Blue lights. Tyres screaming. People running. The army called in. And Simon in the thick of it. Until he's pulled aside and put on a very different kind of job: his first undercover cop waits. Will the young Simon be able to hold his nerve? Or is he walking into a trap?
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[June and the fourth day in a row of blistering heat] ***(Vintage Digital, 16 August 2018, ebook, 39 pages, copy from publisher via NetGalley voluntarily reviewed)
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I enjoyed Old Haunts though I would have enjoyed it more if I'd read any of the Simon Serrailler novels. I felt I was missing a lot of context because of this. I've read a few of Hill's novels but never the Simon Serrailler series. Old Haunts made me want to read the books which can only be a good thing. I felt the story was a lot longer than it actually is. I liked the way it was structured. Simon meets someone from his past and has a flashback from the early days of his career. This works really well. Overall, a well-written story.