- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; (Reissue) edition (3 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 000649000X
- ISBN-13: 978-0006490005
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 354,241 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'On Beulah Height must rank as his best yet... Reginald Hill's novels are really dances to the music of time' Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday 'Few writers in the genre today have Hill's gifts: formidable intelligence, quick humour, compassion and a prose style that blends elegance and grace' Donna Leon, Sunday Times
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‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
They moved everyone that long hot summer fifteen years ago. They needed a new reservoir and an old community seemed a cheap price to pay. They even dug up the dead and moved them too.
But four inhabitants of the valley they couldn’t move, for nobody knew where they were. Three little girls had gone missing, and the prime suspect in their disappearance, Benny Lightfoot
This was Andy Dalziel’s worst case and now fifteen years on he looks set to relive it. It’s another long hot summer. A child goes missing in the next valley, and old fears arise as someone sprays the deadly message on the wall of Danby: BENNY’S BACK!
Music and myth mingle as the Mid-Yorkshire team delve into their pasts and into their own reserves of experience and endurance in search of answers which threaten to bring more pain than they resolve.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book got under my skin completely. It was so disturbing that it was almost like a ghost story in the effect it had on me. Once more he glides easily between the past and the present and the use of multiple narrative only adds to the poignancy. The disappearance of these children is so affecting that I felt like an intruder when I was witnessing the parents' anguish and the effect on the local community. The tragedy builds and builds and scars everyone that it touches. This book is lyrical about issues that one would not expect to be treated that way and it brings out the true horror of the situation. The real poetry here was the way the author brings alive the sense of the fragile balance of life and the futility of taking it away.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of the more disturbing books in the Dalziel and Pascoe series, in part because of the theme of serial child killing, but also because it shows that there are no easy answers. It's a complex and thought-provoking story, and one that easily supports re-reading. There is the mystery, yes, but there is also the psychological study of a village traumatised both by a series of unsolved child murders and by its forced relocation after its valley was drowned by a new water reservoir. It's also beautifully written by a master of prose. Hill brings his characters to full and vivid life, and they will linger with you for days.
Ideally the series should be read in order, and I think regular readers already familiar with the characters will get more out of this book, but it can be read as a standalone. For those familiar with the series, Hill continues to develop the story of his ongoing characters, deftly weaving it into the main plot of the book. Note that there are references to events in the previous book (The Wood Beyond) which are slight spoilers for that book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A doomed Yorskshire Valley flooded for progress, missing girls and the legend of Benny's Back, what can all this mean to Dalziel 15 years down the track, well it looks like Benny is back and another little girl has gone missing in similar circumstances, Dalziel must retrace his steps 15 years back when he was involved in the search for the missing girls. Pascoe has his own problems with his own little girl which will somehow tie everything together. This book was quite an exhaustive read with so much going on in the present and the past, how can the drowning of a valley so long ago mean so much to everyone involved in the present day and what has the childrens book "Nina and the Nix"got to do with the dissapearances ? This book has so many turns and red herrings that the only people I didn't suspect of murder were Dalziel and Pascoe. a thoroughly enjoyable read I give it five out of five. Another plus to this book is that it gives you an interest in exploring the composer Mahler to see if the music mentioned in the book is available.
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One of the best
I have read many of the Dalziel and Pascoe books, and tried to keep to chronologcal order. This is one of the latest and one of the best. Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2009 by Bob from Beds
Stays With You
I was going to put "haunting," but it seems a little over-used. Oh all right, it's haunting. I read it a couple of weeks ago and the ending is still in my mind. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2009 by Kit
Really, really good
This is one of the best books I've read in the last year and also one of the biggest surprises. Not being a great fan of the TV series I had been somewhat dismissive of this series... Read more
Published on 13 April 2009 by Officer Dibble
hauntingly good
This book gripped from start to finish. Page after page of build up and tension. The scary children's story of Nina and the Nix set a chilling background. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2003 by Val Armstrong
Rubbish. The worst of his yet.
Why on earth does everyone think this is such a good book? It is pretentious rubbish. The plot is slow, boring, and uninteresting, but it is very thought provoking and disturbing. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2001
Dead Children - Wild Yorkshire
Reginald Hill is a proper writer and I was left to wonder if he is slumming it in the Crime genre. His writing has the depth and breadth usually only found in the literary novel,... Read more
Published on 30 Nov 1999 by Mr. S. J. Wade
Hill Takes a Heigth Advantage!
For 15 years the disappearance of three little girls has occupied the minds of the villagers of Danby, a Mid-Yorkshire hamlet that is usually concerned with their sheep--or their... Read more
Published on 8 Jun 1999
Satisfying on many levels
Reginald Hill's books, - On Beulah Height in particular - are satisfying both as crime books (complex, believable plot, etc) and also as novels in their own right. Read more
Published on 12 April 1999
Brilliant novel in the detective story form
Like 'The Wood Beyond', this is apparently a detective story - what happened to three little girls who disappeared fifteen years ago? But it is more than that. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 1999
Lyric portrait of a rural Eden; watch out for the sepents!
Lyric portrait of a rural Eden with more than its fair share of serpents. A book for those who like well-crafted prose as well as aficionados of the "who-dunnit" genre. Read more
Published on 23 Mar 1999
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