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‘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
‘The fertility of Hill’s imagination, the range of his power, the sheer quality of his literary style never cease to delight’ Val McDermid, Sunday Express
‘He is probably the best living male crime writer in the English-speaking world’ Andrew Taylor, Independent
‘Reginald Hill’s novels are really dances to the music of time, his heroes and villains interconnecting, their stories entwining’ Ian Rankin, Scotland on Sunday
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‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on Sunday
When young Tracey Pedley vanished in the woods around Burrthorpe, the close-knit community had their own ideas about what had happened, but Deputy Chief Constable Watmough has it down as the work of a child-killer who has since committed suicide – though others wondered about the last man to see her alive and his fatal plunge into the disused mine shaft.
Returning to a town he left in anger, Colin Farr’s homecoming is ready for trouble, and when a university course brings him into contact with Ellie Pascoe, trouble starts…
Meanwhile Andy Daziel mutters imprecations on the sidelines, until a murder in Burrthorpe mine forces him to take action that brings him up against a hostile and frightened community…
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The Dalziel & Pascoe series is familiar to many people from TV. The books are better - witty, thoughtful, wide-ranging both emotionally & politically, but never losing the lightness of touch characteristic of classic English crime-writing.
This is one of the best. Ellie, Peter Pascoe's wife, is easing back into the workplace following the birth of their child, by teaching a course to young workers on day release. Among them is a rather Lawrentian young miner, who longs to leave an area saturated in the bitter memories of the era of mine closures & the prolonged, ultimately defeated, strike. A dark secret involving his own father & the disappearance of a child ties him to the pit, & the scarred landscape. Ellie's marriage comes under some strain as she tries to balance her leftist & feminist tendencies with loyalty to Peter. It doesn't help that she's attracted to the wild boy, who both literally & metaphorically takes her down into the underworld. Unlike him, she escapes in the end.
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