Susan Hill is a brilliant writer. She has a real knack of evoking mood and emotion and a sense of place. The Betrayal of Trust is a murder mystery which has several ancillary plot lines, some of which come together in the end. Some are not directly related to the mystery.
I do have to say, that all of the plot lines the main story and the side plots..are all very dark. As I mentioned, she's able to set the dark mood very skillfully but I also found myself rather uncomfortable and felt kind of "down" the entire time I was reading the book. I couldn't put it down and really wanted to find out the resolution of the main mystery as well as the other narratives included in this book. On the other hand, I found the book very unsettling and I was rather uncomfortable. I kind of felt like one of those ghastly people at the scene of an accident. It's really ghoulish and none of anyone's business what happened in the crash, but some people just have to rubberneck, trying to see what happened. I had the same sort of grizzly fascination with this story.
So though the story was well written, the mystery well crafted, I can't say that I actually enjoyed this book.

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