A gunman is terrorising young women in the Cathedral town of Laffteron. What – if anything – links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun?The Vows of Silence is a sequel to the Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness.This is a crime series that specialises in sidestepping conventions, always to exhilarating effect.These books succeed in harnessing all the genres addictive power while maintaining a complexity and fascination entirely their own Independent